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Author Cowen, Tyler, author.

Title The complacent class : the self-defeating quest for the American dream / Tyler Cowen.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1791900~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  305.5130973 COW    AVAILABLE
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Description 241 pages ; 25 cm
Summary The Great Social Stagnation argues that this cannot go on forever. We are postponing change, due to our near-sightedness and extreme desire for comfort, but ultimately this will make change, when it comes, harder. The forces unleashed by the Great Stagnation will eventually lead to a major fiscal and budgetary crisis: impossibly expensive rentals for our most attractive cities, worsening of residential segregation, and a decline in our work ethic. The only way to avoid this difficult future is for Americans to force themselves out of their comfortable slumber—to embrace their restless tradition again.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index.
Subject Social mobility -- United States.
Social classes -- United States.
Migration, Internal -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
ISBN 9781250108692 (hardcover)
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