The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest For The American Dream

He suggests that African-Americans, through their unique vulnerabilities in society and their increased protests over high-profile grievances, are exhibiting signs of dissent from the complacent class. And that this may signal an opportunity to tackle the larger questions of why so many Americans are relatively satisfied with an increasingly dysfunctional status quo.

The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

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Tyler Cowen named his latest book The Complacent Class. It's a really thought-provoking read, but the alliteration in the title helps. Now economists everywhere are referring to a broad set of phenomena by the term "complacent class." It wouldn't be nearly as memorable if called Complacent People or The Dangers of Self-Satisfaction. Can you name the subtitle of the book? It's "the self-defeating quest for the American Dream" but no one remembers that part. 2ff7e9595c