Average Is Over

Average Is Over
Author: Tyler Cowen
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2013-09-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780698138162

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Renowned economist and author of Big Business Tyler Cowen brings a groundbreaking analysis of capitalism, the job market, and the growing gap between the one percent and minimum wage workers in this follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation. The United States continues to mint more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever. Yet, since the great recession, three quarters of the jobs created here pay only marginally more than minimum wage. Why is there growth only at the top and the bottom? Economist and bestselling author Tyler Cowen explains that high earners are taking ever more advantage of machine intelligence and achieving ever-better results. Meanwhile, nearly every business sector relies less and less on manual labor, and that means a steady, secure life somewhere in the middle—average—is over. In Average is Over, Cowen lays out how the new economy works and identifies what workers and entrepreneurs young and old must do to thrive in this radically new economic landscape.

The Great Stagnation

The Great Stagnation
Author: Tyler Cowen
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2011-01-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781101502259

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Tyler Cowen’s controversial New York Times bestseller—the book heard round the world that ignited a firestorm of debate and redefined the nature of America’s economic malaise. America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, media wages have been flat since the 1970s, and it is common to expect that things will get worse before they get better. Certainly, the multidecade stagnation is not yet over. How will we get out of this mess? One political party tries to increase government spending even when we have no good plan for paying for ballooning programs like Medicare and Social Security. The other party seems to think tax cuts will raise revenue and has a record of creating bigger fiscal disasters that the first. Where does this madness come from? As Cowen argues, our economy has enjoyed low-hanging fruit since the seventeenth century: free land, immigrant labor, and powerful new technologies. But during the last forty years, the low-hanging fruit started disappearing, and we started pretending it was still there. We have failed to recognize that we are at a technological plateau. The fruit trees are barer than we want to believe. That's it. That is what has gone wrong and that is why our politics is crazy. In The Great Stagnation, Cowen reveals the underlying causes of our past prosperity and how we will generate it again. This is a passionate call for a new respect of scientific innovations that benefit not only the powerful elites, but humanity as a whole.

An Economist Gets Lunch

An Economist Gets Lunch
Author: Tyler Cowen
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2012-04-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781101561669

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One of the most influential economists of the decade-and the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Stagnation-boldly argues that just about everything you've heard about food is wrong. Food snobbery is killing entrepreneurship and innovation, says economist, preeminent social commentator, and maverick dining guide blogger Tyler Cowen. Americans are becoming angry that our agricultural practices have led to global warming-but while food snobs are right that local food tastes better, they're wrong that it is better for the environment, and they are wrong that cheap food is bad food. The food world needs to know that you don't have to spend more to eat healthy, green, exciting meals. At last, some good news from an economist! Tyler Cowen discusses everything from slow food to fast food, from agriculture to gourmet culture, from modernist cuisine to how to pick the best street vendor. He shows why airplane food is bad but airport food is good; why restaurants full of happy, attractive people serve mediocre meals; and why American food has improved as Americans drink more wine. And most important of all, he shows how to get good, cheap eats just about anywhere. Just as The Great Stagnation was Cowen's response to all the fashionable thinking about the economic crisis, An Economist Gets Lunch is his response to all the fashionable thinking about food. Provocative, incisive, and as enjoyable as a juicy, grass-fed burger, it will influence what you'll choose to eat today and how we're going to feed the world tomorrow.

Letters from a Self Made Merchant to his Son

Letters from a Self Made Merchant to his Son
Author: George Horace Lorimer
Publsiher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2017-06-24
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9781387059881

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George Lorimer's 'Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son' is a timeless collection of Gilded Age aphorisms from a rich man - a prosperous pork-packer in Chicago to his son, Pierrepont, whom he 'affectionately' calls 'Piggy.' The writing is subtle and brilliant. Lorimer later followed this best-seller up with 'More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant.'

Over 200 Proven Ways and Places to Pick up Girls by an Average Looking Guy

Over 200 Proven Ways and Places to Pick up Girls by an Average Looking Guy
Author: Steve Pell
Publsiher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2002-10-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1403342423

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What makes this book, "Over 200 Proven Ways and Places to PICK UP GIRLS By an Average-Looking Guy," different from most other books on how to pick up women is that in addition to giving advice and information you will need to successfully go about picking up women, and having success with them after, it also gives over 200 actual, proven ways and places to pick up women and goes into great detail doing so. This book is divided into TWO PARTS. PART ONE: Getting You Ready For Part Two, will give you just about all the advice, and information you will need to successfully go about picking up women, and having success with them after in EVERY WAY! (see FREE PREVIEW of book) PART TWO: Ways and Places to Pick Up Girls, will give you over 200 proven ways and places to pick up women, most of which you never thought of in your wildest dreams. There are many ideas which are daring and different in every way that will require some nerve and imagination. There are also many ideas that will be easy for any man to do as they require little or no imagination- just some time and effort. (see FREE PREVIEW of book}

The Great Inflation

The Great Inflation
Author: Michael D. Bordo,Athanasios Orphanides
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2013-06-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780226066950

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Controlling inflation is among the most important objectives of economic policy. By maintaining price stability, policy makers are able to reduce uncertainty, improve price-monitoring mechanisms, and facilitate more efficient planning and allocation of resources, thereby raising productivity. This volume focuses on understanding the causes of the Great Inflation of the 1970s and ’80s, which saw rising inflation in many nations, and which propelled interest rates across the developing world into the double digits. In the decades since, the immediate cause of the period’s rise in inflation has been the subject of considerable debate. Among the areas of contention are the role of monetary policy in driving inflation and the implications this had both for policy design and for evaluating the performance of those who set the policy. Here, contributors map monetary policy from the 1960s to the present, shedding light on the ways in which the lessons of the Great Inflation were absorbed and applied to today’s global and increasingly complex economic environment.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Occupational Outlook Handbook
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 740
Release: 1957
Genre: Employment forecasting
ISBN: IND:30000089076727

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More Than an Average Guy

More Than an Average Guy
Author: Janet Kastner
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0938736256

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An inspiring story of a boy who was born with cerebral palsy & of the family that loved him.