{"product_id":"the-big-business-a-love-letter-to-an-american-anti-hero-paperback","title":"The Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTyler Cowen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Tyler Cowen. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe love to hate the 800-pound gorilla. Walmart and Amazon destroy communities and small businesses. Facebook turns us into addicts while putting our personal data at risk. From skeptical politicians like Bernie Sanders who, at a 2016 presidential campaign rally said, \"If a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist,\" to millennials, only 42 percent of whom support capitalism, belief in big business is at an all-time low. But are big companies inherently evil? If business is so bad, why does it remain so integral to the basic functioning of America? Economist and bestselling author Tyler Cowen says our biggest problem is that we don't love business enough. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBig Business\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTYLER COWEN (Ph.D.) holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in economics at George Mason University. He is the author of a number of explanatory and text books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Complacent Class\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as writing the most read economics blog worldwide, marginalrevolution. Tyler is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, has written regularly for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and contributes to a wide range of newspapers and periodicals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47444776190130,"sku":"9781250251329","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/763253fb05aa2dda44ed71afd1d91560.webp?v=1778710859","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-big-business-a-love-letter-to-an-american-anti-hero-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}