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  • Stubborn Attachments

    A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    From a bestselling author and economist, a contemporary moral case for economic growth—and a dose of inspiration and optimism about our future possibilities.Growth is good. Throughout history, economic growth in particular has alleviated human misery, improved human happiness and opportunity, and lengthened human lives. Wealthier societies are more stable, offer better living standards, produce ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Talent

    How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World

    The art and science of talent search: how to spot, assess, woo, and retain highly talented people.How do you find talent with a creative spark? To what extent can you predict human creativity, or is human creativity something irreducible before our eyes, perhaps to be spotted or glimpsed by intuition, but unique each time it appears?Obsessed with these questions, renowned economist Tyler Cowen and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Great Stagnation

    How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    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 ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Average Is Over

    Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • An Economist Gets Lunch

    New Rules for Everyday Foodies

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    A leading economist, “who may very well turn out to be this decade’s Thomas Friedman” (Wall Street Journal), illuminates the state of American food todayTyler Cowen, one of the most influential economists of the last decade, wants you to know that just about everything you’ve heard about how to get good food is wrong. Drawing on a provocative range of examples from around the globe, Cowen reveals ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Markets and Cultural Voices

    Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate Painters

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    Series series Economics, Cognition, And Society
    This intriguing work explores the world of three amate artists. A native tradition, all of their painting is done in Mexico, yet, the finished product is sold almost exclusively to wealthy American art buyers.Cowen examines this cultural interaction between Mexico and the United States to see how globalization shapes the lives and the work of the artists and their families. The story of these ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • In Praise of Commercial Culture

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    Does a market economy encourage or discourage music, literature, and the visual arts? Do economic forces of supply and demand help or harm the pursuit of creativity? This book seeks to redress the current intellectual and popular balance and to encourage a more favorable attitude toward the commercialization of culture that we associate with modernity. Economist Tyler Cowen argues that the ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • Creative Destruction

    How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    "Argued neatly . . . cultural products that [we] think of as indigenous owe their existence to the cultural exchange brought about by trade." — Wall Street JournalA Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. ... Read more

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  • The Complacent Class

    The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    A Wall Street Journal and Washington Post Bestseller"Tyler Cowen's blog, Marginal Revolution, is the first thing I read every morning. And his brilliant new book, The Complacent Class, has been on my nightstand after I devoured it in one sitting. I am at round-the-clock Cowen saturation right now."--Malcolm GladwellSince Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Age of the Infovore

    Succeeding in the Information Economy

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    **Previously published as Create Your Own Economy"Will change the way you think about thinking."—Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind**Renowned behavioral economist and commentator Tyler Cowen shows that our supernetworked world is changing the way we think—and empowering us to thrive in any economic climate. Whether it is micro-blogging on Twitter or buying single songs at iTunes, we can ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • Discover Your Inner Economist

    Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    One of America’s most respected economists presents a quirky, incisive romp through everyday life that reveals how you can turn economic reasoning to your advantage—often when you least expect it to be relevant.Like no other economist, Tyler Cowen shows how economic notions—such as incentives, signals, and markets—apply far more widely than merely to the decisions of social planners, governments, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Good and Plenty

    The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible--and such small portions! Americans typically either want to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts, or they believe that public arts funding should be dramatically increased because the arts cannot survive in the free market. It would take a lover of the arts ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD