Book of the week: The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen

Cowen argues that we’re unlikely to develop new technologies that could propel growth, improve living standards, and generate wealth the way electricity, automobiles, and plastics did in the previous century.

The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better by Tyler Cowen

(Dutton, $4; e-book only)

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