Average Is Over, Tyler Cowen
Average Is Over, Tyler Cowen
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Average Is Over
Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

Author: Tyler Cowen

Narrator: Andrew Garman

Unabridged: 8 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/18/2013


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

About Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He blogs at Marginalrevolution.com, the world's leading economics blog. He also writes regularly for the New York Times, and he has written for Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wilson Quarterly.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brendan Shea on June 22, 2015

I suppose I should preface this (largely negative) review by saying the obvious: Tyler Cowen seems like a perfectly competent economist and all-around smart guy, and I occasionally enjoy reading his blog (Marginal Revolution). However, I didn't find much to be impressed with in this book, especially......more

Goodreads review by Gwern on November 11, 2020

Moved to gwern.net.......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on September 18, 2013

For a book positing the end of the average, Cowen's most recent work is surprisingly mediocre. To be frank, as a fairly devoted Marginal Revolution reader and an enormous fan of Cowen's thinking, I expected a lot more. Digressive and chatty, but not in a good way; Cowen never puts together anything......more