The complacent class : the self-defeating quest for the American dream / Tyler Cowen.
By: Cowen, Tyler [author.]
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TextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-231) and index.Description: 241 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781250108692; 1250108691.Subject(s): United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020 | Social mobility -- United States | Social classes -- United States | United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-DDC classification: 305.5/130973 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 305.5 C8389 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003860905 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-231) and index.
Examines the trend of Americans away from the traditionally mobile, risk-accepting, and adaptable tendencies that defined them for much of recent history, and toward stagnation and comfort, and how this development has the potential to make future changes more disruptive. --Publisher's description.
The complacent class and its dangers -- Why Americans have stopped moving, or Is your hometown really so special? -- The reemergence of segregation -- Why Americans stopped creating -- The respite of the well-ordered match: love, music, and even your dog -- Why Americans stopped rioting and instead legalized marijuana -- How a dynamic society looks and feels -- Political stagnation, the dwindling of true democracy, and Alexis de Tocqueville as prophet of our time -- The return of chaos, and why the complacent class cannot hold.
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