Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

Description

Cowen delivers his magnum opus on where we are headed. It begins with one big, uncomfortable truth: if you're not at the top, you're at the bottom because a steady, secure life somewhere in the middle is over. Cowen reveals the essential nature of the new economy: how things will get better and provides practical advice on the best path forward. Average Is Over is a must-read book for entrepreneurs, workers and anyone who wants to thrive in the post-recession economic landscape.

TYLER COWEN is a professor of economics at George Mason University. His blog, Marginal Revolution, is one of the world's most influential economics blogs. He also writes for the New York Times, Financial Times and The Economist and is the cofounder of Marginal Revolution University. The author of five previous books, Cowen lives in Fairfax, Virginia.

Praise for Average is Over "A lively and worryingly prophetic read... some of the most talked-about issues in present-day America... observations that are genuinely enlightening, interesting, and underappreciated"-The Daily Beast "A book that is gripping policy makers in Washington... An engaging and eclectic thinker."-The Sunday Times "Cowen's book represents a fundamental challenge."-Wall Street Journal "A buckle-your-seatbelts, swiftly moving tour of the new economic landscape."-Kirkus Reviews