Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero Contributor(s): Cowen, Tyler (Author), Edwards, Steve (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1250319064 ISBN-13: 9781250319067 Publisher: MacMillan Audio OUR PRICE: $31.49 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
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BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Free Enterprise & Capitalism - Business & Economics | Industries - General |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.1" W x 5.8" (0.30 lbs) |
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Publisher Description: An against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from New York Times bestselling author Tyler Cowen. In Big Business, Cowen puts forth an impassioned defense of corporations and their essential role in a balanced, productive, and progressive society. He dismantles common misconceptions and untangles conflicting intuitions. According to a 2016 Gallup survey, only 12 percent of Americans trust big business "quite a lot," and only 6 percent trust it "a great deal." Yet Americans as a group are remarkably willing to trust businesses, whether in the form of buying a new phone on the day of its release or simply showing up to work in the expectation they will be paid. Cowen illuminates the crucial role businesses play in spurring innovation, rewarding talent and hard work, and creating the bounty on which we've all come to depend. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cowen, Tyler: - Tyler Cowen (Ph.D.) holds the Holbert C. Harris chair in economics at George Mason University. He is the author of Discover Your Inner Economist (2007), Create Your Own Economy (2009), the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation (2011), An Economist Get Lunch (2012), Average is Over (2013), and a number of academic books. He writes the most read economics blog worldwide, marginalrevolution.com. He has written regularly for The New York Times and contributes to a wide number of newspapers and periodicals. |