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- Title
- The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the America...
- Book Title
- The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the America...
- ISBN
- 1250108691
- EAN
- 9781250108692
- Binding
- Hardback
- Genre
- Society & culture: general
- Height
- 23.88
- Length
- 231.90
- Width
- 157.99
- Release Title
- The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the America...
- Artist
- Cowen, Tyler
- Brand
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- Colour
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- Subject Area
- Economic Sociology, Social Organisations
- Publication Name
- The Complacent Class: the Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
- Publisher
- ST Martin's Press
- Subject
- Economics, Sociology
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 242 mm
- Item Weight
- 432 g
- Item Width
- 161 mm
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change have produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs. The problem, according to legendary blogger, economist and best selling author Tyler Cowen, is that Americans today have broken from this tradition-we're working harder than ever to avoid change. We're moving residences less, marrying people more like ourselves and choosing our music and our mates based on algorithms that wall us off from anything that might be too new or too different. Match.com matches us in love. Spotify and Pandora match us in music. Facebook matches us to just about everything else. Of course, this matching culture brings tremendous positives: music we like, partners who make us happy, neighbors who want the same things. We're more comfortable. But, according to Cowen, there are significant collateral downsides attending this comfort, among them heightened inequality and segregation and decreased incentives to innovate and create. The Complacent Class argues that this cannot go on forever. We are postponing change, due to our near-sightedness and extreme desire for comfort, but ultimately this will make change, when it comes, harder. The forces unleashed by the Great Stagnation will eventually lead to a major fiscal and budgetary crisis: impossibly expensive rentals for our most attractive cities, worsening of residential segregation, and a decline in our work ethic. The only way to avoid this difficult future is for Americans to force themselves out of their comfortable slumber-to embrace their restless tradition again.
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Publisher
ST Martin's Press
ISBN-13
9781250108692
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234014972
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Publication Name
The Complacent Class: the Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
Language
English
Subject
Economics, Sociology
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Economic Sociology, Social Organisations
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
242 mm
Item Weight
432 g
Item Width
161 mm
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United States
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