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Tyler Cowen 出版社: Dutton Adult 副标题: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation 出版年: 2013-9-12 页数: 304 定价: USD 26.95 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780525953739
Widely acclaimed as one of the world’s most influential economists, Tyler Cowen returns with his groundbreaking follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation.
The widening gap between rich and poor means dealing with one big, uncomfortable truth: If you’re not at the top, you’re at the bottom.
The global labor market is changing radically thanks to growth at t...
Widely acclaimed as one of the world’s most influential economists, Tyler Cowen returns with his groundbreaking follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation.
The widening gap between rich and poor means dealing with one big, uncomfortable truth: If you’re not at the top, you’re at the bottom.
The global labor market is changing radically thanks to growth at the high end—and the low. About three quarters of the jobs created in the United States since the great recession pay only a bit more than minimum wage. Still, the United States has more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever, and we continue to mint them.
In this eye-opening book, renowned economist and bestselling author Tyler Cowen explains that phenomenon: High earners are taking ever more advantage of machine intelligence in data analysis and achieving ever-better results. Meanwhile, low earners who haven’t committed to learning, to making the most of new technologies, have poor prospects. Nearly every business sector relies less and less on manual labor, and this fact is forever changing the world of work and wages. A steady, secure life somewhere in the middle—average—is over.
With The Great Stagnation, Cowen explained why median wages stagnated over the last four decades; in Average Is Over he reveals the essential nature of the new economy, identifies the best path forward for workers and entrepreneurs, and provides readers with actionable advice to make the most of the new economic landscape. It is a challenging and sober must-read but ultimately exciting, good news. In debates about our nation’s economic future, it will be impossible to ignore.
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Tyler Cowen (/ˈkaʊ.ən/; born January 21, 1962) is an American economist, academic, and writer. He occupies the Holbert L. Harris Chair of economics, as a professor at George Mason University, and is co-author, with Alex Tabarrok, of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution. Cowen and Tabarrok have also ventured into online education by starting Marginal Revolution Univers...
Tyler Cowen (/ˈkaʊ.ən/; born January 21, 1962) is an American economist, academic, and writer. He occupies the Holbert L. Harris Chair of economics, as a professor at George Mason University, and is co-author, with Alex Tabarrok, of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution. Cowen and Tabarrok have also ventured into online education by starting Marginal Revolution University. He currently writes a regular column for Bloomberg View. He also has written for such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Time, Wired, Newsweek, and the Wilson Quarterly. Cowen also serves as faculty director of George Mason's Mercatus Center, a university research center that focuses on the market economy. In February 2011, Cowen received a nomination as one of the most influential economists in the last decade in a survey by The Economist. He was ranked #72 among the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" in 2011 by Foreign Policy Magazine "for finding markets in everything."
How should you be planning your own personal development so that you can take advantage of these trends rather than have them take advantage of you?
This is a popular topic, it seems like every day you see a new opinion piece about robots taking all of our jobs… I think a lot of these pieces exaggerate the facts. Personally I think that although the advancements in deep learning and neural nets are impressive, I don’t think we’re on an imminent path and there’s going to be a level of artificial intelligence that can do all the jobs that humans can do.
But what you really want to be doing in your profession is pushing up the scale, because the further you push up the scale, the deeper your skill and competence is, the more you’re going to resist erosion from this middle vacuum ... (查看原文)
He [Cowen] really maps out a transition path that he imagines we’re going to go through. This isn’t something we go through collectively, meaning that we’re entirely at one stage and then we’re entirely at another stage, butrather, individual industries and individual job positions are going to go through these stages and it may take a short amount of time, or it may have already happened for some… There are four stages in total.
The first is “man only” where there’s a human being who is working on a specific job. The next is the “human + machine” where the human is doing the bulk of the work but is using the software or the tools to facilitate the work.
The next is a “machine + human” combo where the machine is doing most of the work and the human being is there simply to mo... (查看原文)
读Tayler Cowen的书，是因为《经济学人》上两次介绍其书，前次是The Great Stagnation，后来是这本（2013年9月21日期刊）。相对来讲，The Great Stagnation较短，较容易读，这本书长了一点，其中关于国际象棋的部分也写得太长了。 本书主要还是以美国社会为背景，分析科技进步...
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4 有用 Fritz 2014-03-21 00:56:09
这种有人按照你的思路在思考，但想的比你远比你深的感觉很好
2 有用 元非 2013-12-31 12:46:20
国际象棋的内容太多， Tyler Cowen 曾是美国16岁以下排名第二的棋手（翻墙自理）：http://nezhmet.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/the-fabulous-70s-news-of-the-weird/
2 有用 庄常飞 2017-05-24 11:19:06
涉及经济的点评都有意思，其他的（特别是国际象棋）和未来预测都鸡肋
0 有用 ilaria 2015-11-28 12:16:36
the average is over!
0 有用 地下宇航员 2014-05-14 20:09:21
Insightful but overwritten.