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Average Is Over
- Author
- Tyler Cowen
- Narrator
- Andrew Garman
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 18 October 2013
- Run Time
- 8 hours 42 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The United States continues to mint more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever. Yet, since the great recession, three quarters of the jobs created here pay only marginally more than minimum wage. Why is there growth only at the top and the bottom?
Economist and bestselling author Tyler Cowen explains that high earners are taking ever more advantage of machine intelligence and achieving ever-better results. Meanwhile, nearly every business sector relies less and less on manual labor, and that means a steady, secure life somewhere in the middle—average—is over.
In Average Is Over, Cowen lays out how the new economy works and identifies what workers and entrepreneurs young and old must do to thrive in this radically new economic landscape.
“A buckle-your-seatbelts, swiftly moving tour of the new economic landscape.”—Kirkus Reviews
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Details
- Author
- Tyler Cowen
- Narrator
- Andrew Garman
- Duration
- 8 hours 42 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 October 2013
- ISBN
- 9781470354466
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Automatic control engineering, Macroeconomics, Labour / income economics, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety
Synopsis
Renowned economist and author of Big Business Tyler Cowen brings a groundbreaking analysis of capitalism, the job market, and the growing gap between the one percent and minimum wage workers in this follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation.The United States continues to mint more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever. Yet, since the great recession, three quarters of the jobs created here pay only marginally more than minimum wage. Why is there growth only at the top and the bottom?Economist and bestselling author Tyler Cowen explains that high earners are taking ever more advantage of machine intelligence and achieving ever-better results. Meanwhile, nearly every business sector relies less and less on manual labor, and that means a steady, secure life somewhere in the middle—average—is over.In Average Is Over, Cowen lays out how the new economy works and identifies what workers and entrepreneurs young and old must do to thrive in this radically new economic landscape.“A buckle-your-seatbelts, swiftly moving tour of the new economic landscape.”—Kirkus Reviews
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