Unlock Your Potential: How to Thrive in the Post-Great Stagnation Economy with Average Is Over

Ed O'Toole: Good price

Canada on Sep 18, 2021

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India on Jun 16, 2021

Cliente Amazon: Cowen è un economista, ma le sue considerazioni su muovono su un piano di ampia rielaborazione della stessa materia economica. Sono riflessioni che richiamano scenari ai quali dovremo adattarci e ai quali, soprattutto, dovranno ispirarsi le politiche economiche del futuro prossimo. Ricordano le riflessioni sul futuro di Keynes. A differenza dei catastrofisti, Cowen trasmette una salda positività. Una sana nostalgia del futuro. Nel sue parole il nostro presente: "That's about to change. It is frightening. but it is exciting too." Non a caso nei suoi frequenti collegamenti compaiono Keynes, così come Brynjolfsson e McAfee, Turing e Kahneman. Il futuro che ci presenta Cowen è molto vicino e cambierà le nostre visione del vivere in società. "When it comes to a lot of values issues - and what people really believe in their daily lives - the gap between conservatives and liberals isn't nearly as large as it might first seem."

Italy on Jan 21, 2017

Delta: In der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung wurden sowohl das Buch als auch der Autor empfohlen. Daher bedurfte es keiner großen Überlegungen, mir dieses Buch zu kaufen. Meine Erwartungen wurden in jeder Hinsicht erfüllt. Die Auseinandersetzung mit den Problemen der Lohnentwicklung, Gewinnern und Verlierern auf dem Arbeitsmarkt und des Wiedererlernens der Bildung/Ausbildung u.v.m. ist auch für den vorgebildeten Laien in verständlicher Form geführt.
Wer sich jenseits trockener Statistiken mit brennenden Themen der Wirtschaft beschäftigen möchte, kommt an Tyler Coven nicht vorbei.
Dies ist mit ein Grund, mir auch die weiteren bisher von ihm erschienenen Bücher zu kaufen.

Germany on Jun 29, 2014

James Henderson: Tyler Cowen is a writer, blogger, and an economist. It is in the latter role that he is foremost although his influential blog, Marginal Revolution, is renowned and I would certainly recommend it. He has written five books, not counting textbooks, and his latest is Average is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation. While the title tells you about the main theme of the book I found that, beyond the economics of our current snail-like recovery from the depths of the recession, this book is a cornucopia of ideas about a diverse number of aspects of our life both now and in the future.

There are three Parts to the book which focus on first, the growing divide between those who earn more, much more than average and those who are below-average earners; second, the importance of machines and, in particular, games in our future; and third, the changing nature of work.
The opening chapters establish some of the important themes for the book by describing the current environment of stagnation and making the claim, that will be supported by examples throughout the book, that "new technologies already emerging will lead us out of" the current stagnant economy....

United States on Apr 22, 2014

m: Its a good book for people like myself who dont know much about economy but are interested in the social and political impact of it.

United Kingdom on Mar 04, 2014

Berend de Boer: Average is Over starts where the Great Stagnation ended. The Great Stagnation tried to explain why incomes have been stagnant since 1970. Tyler's hypothesis was that the low hanging fruit, the easier inventions, are over. Not only that, the game changing inventions are over. He famously quipped: would you rather have your flush toilet or your ipad?

He probably has never asked that question to a real audience. If we take the ipad to stand for the internet, the ecology, access to almost every book ever written, access to all that information, and it's either the ipad or no internet at all, what would the answer be? Would you keep your flush toilet or your ipad? I'm sure most would choose the ipad. From personal experience, living in a country where the long drop is regularly encountered when camping, missing the flush toilet is not that big a deal. It's inconvenient, but living without the internet would be amputating a part of your brain.

But now Tyler takes on a second, and newer feature of income statistics: the income for the top is rising, while the bottom remains stagnant. Why is that? Charles Murry in Coming Apart demonstrated that the behaviour at the top is...

United States on Oct 10, 2013