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Author Cowen, Tyler, author.

Title The complacent class [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] the self-defeating quest for the American dream / Tyler Cowen.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource
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Note Electronic book.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. New York St. Martin's Press 2017 Available via World Wide Web.
Subject Social mobility -- United States.
Social classes -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
Genre Electronic books.
Added Author OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
ISBN 9781250108708 (electronic bk.)
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