Faster Growth, Fairer Growth: Policies for a High Road, High Performance Economy
&gt; At the same time that the major factors expanding the economic pie were losing momentum, other powerful forces emerged that would push toward dividing the pie more unequally<p>The framing of the issue influences what conclusions one draws. Here, the authors think of the economy as a &quot;pie&quot; created by &quot;factors&quot; that gets &quot;divided up&quot;. What naturally follows is that if some get a bigger &quot;slice&quot; than others, it is inherently unfair.<p>But a free market economy is not a pie. It&#x27;s a collection of people that create wealth. Some create more wealth than others. Bob creating more wealth than Fred does not mean that Bob took it from Fred. There&#x27;s nothing unfair about Bob creating more than Fred.