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Common Sense: The Investor's Guide to Equality, Opportunity, and Growth

byJoel Greenblatt

Investor Joel Greenblatt connects capital markets with a broader argument about equality, opportunity, and economic growth. He explains how markets can allocate resources and reward innovation while still producing outcomes that leave many people without access to strong schools, jobs, or upward mobility. The book uses clear economic reasoning to examine education, taxes, wages, and public investment, seeking reforms that expand opportunity without abandoning productive incentives. Greenblatt's approach is pragmatic rather than ideological: preserve what competitive markets do well, measure policies by results, and correct institutional failures that prevent talent from contributing to shared prosperity.

Publisher

Columbia Business School Publishing

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

144

ISBN

9780231198905