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Podcast: The Art of Manliness
Episode: #283: The Complacent Class
Description: My guest today argues that while these narratives may have been true at one point in American history, the statistics show that in recent decades Americans have lost that pioneering, entrepreneurial get-up-and-go. Instead, we’ve become pretty complacent. His name is Tyler Cowen, he’s an economist at George Mason University, writer at his blog Marginal Revolutions, and the author of several books. His latest is "The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream."Today on the show, Tyler and I discuss the statistics that indicate Americans are losing their dynamism -- that we're moving less and...