Faster Growth,
Fairer Growth:

Policies for a
High Road,
High Performance

Economy

What happened to the land of opportunity?


Over the past several decades, the American Dream has been caught in a pincer movement. On the one hand, deep-seated social forces have combined to slow down growth and accelerate inequality. At the same time, sustained and dramatic changes in public policy have worked not to counteract those forces, but to exacerbate them.

America’s 21st-century economic malaise and deepening social divisions have spurred a desperate search for radical alternatives to the status quo. In Faster Growth, Fairer Growth, the Niskanen Center's Brink Lindsey and Samuel Hammond lay out an ambitious, full-spectrum agenda to undo the damage caused by regulatory capture, counter the forces pushing against inclusive prosperity, and put the United States on a high road, high performance path going forward.

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