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Average is over : powering America beyond the age of the great stagnation / Tyler Cowen.

By: Cowen, Tyler.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : Dutton, [2013]Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-276) and index.Description: xii, 290 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780525953739 (hbk.) :; 0525953736 (hbk.).Subject(s): Economic forecasting -- United States | United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009- | United States -- Economic policy -- 2009-DDC classification: 330.973
Contents:
Welcome to the hyper-meritocracy. Work and wages in iWorld ; The big earners and the big losers ; Why are so many people out of work? -- What games are teaching us. New work, old game ; Our freestyle future ; Why intuition isn't helping you get a job ; The new office : regular, stupid, and frustrating ; Why the Turing game doesn't matter -- The new world of work. The new geography ; Relearning education ; The end of average science ; A new social contract?
Summary: There are more rich people and more poor people in our country than ever before. Tyler Cowen explains how this happened and why there is no longer a steady or secure middle class. Also identfies the best path forward for workers and entrepreneurs and provides readers with a road map to a new economic landscape.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-276) and index.

Welcome to the hyper-meritocracy. Work and wages in iWorld ; The big earners and the big losers ; Why are so many people out of work? -- What games are teaching us. New work, old game ; Our freestyle future ; Why intuition isn't helping you get a job ; The new office : regular, stupid, and frustrating ; Why the Turing game doesn't matter -- The new world of work. The new geography ; Relearning education ; The end of average science ; A new social contract?

There are more rich people and more poor people in our country than ever before. Tyler Cowen explains how this happened and why there is no longer a steady or secure middle class. Also identfies the best path forward for workers and entrepreneurs and provides readers with a road map to a new economic landscape.

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