Average Is over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation - Hardcover

Cowen, Tyler

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525953736 ISBN 13: 9780525953739

Publisher: E P Dutton, 2013

Synopsis

Widely acclaimed as one of the world’s most influential economists, Tyler Cowen returns with his groundbreaking follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation.

The widening gap between rich and poor means dealing with one big, uncomfortable truth: If you’re not at the top, you’re at the bottom.

The global labor market is changing radically thanks to growth at the high end?and the low. About three quarters of the jobs created in the United States since the great recession pay only a bit more than minimum wage. Still, the United States has more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever, and we continue to mint them.

In this eye-opening book, renowned economist and bestselling author Tyler Cowen explains that phenomenon: High earners are taking ever more advantage of machine intelligence in data analysis and achieving ever-better results. Meanwhile, low earners who haven’t committed to learning, to making the most of new technologies, have poor prospects. Nearly every business sector relies less and less on manual labor, and this fact is forever changing the world of work and wages. A steady, secure life somewhere in the middle?average?is over.

With The Great Stagnation, Cowen explained why median wages stagnated over the last four decades; in Average Is Over he reveals the essential nature of the new economy, identifies the best path forward for workers and entrepreneurs, and provides readers with actionable advice to make the most of the new economic landscape. It is a challenging and sober must-read but ultimately exciting, good news. In debates about our nation’s economic future, it will be impossible to ignore.

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Review:

"A lively and worryingly prophetic read... some of the most talked-about issues in present-day America... observations that are genuinely enlightening, interesting, and underappreciated"--The Daily Beast

"A book that is gripping policy makers in Washington... An engaging and eclectic thinker." --The Sunday Times

"Cowen's book represents a fundamental challenge."--Wall Street Journal

"A buckle-your-seatbelts, swiftly moving tour of the new economic landscape."--Kirkus

About the Author:

TYLER COWEN is a professor of economics at George Mason University. His blog, Marginal Revolution, is one of the world’s most influential economics blogs. He also writes for the New York Times, Financial Times and The Economist and is the cofounder of Marginal Revolution University. The author of five previous books, Cowen lives in Fairfax, Virginia.

About this edition

• Publisher: E P Dutton
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0525953736
• ISBN 13: 9780525953739
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 290