Book Titles

Average is Over
Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

By Tyler Cowen

Year Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-95373-9
Categories: Future, Intelligence, Technology

125 Quotes Found

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Average is Over:

The better the world is at measuring value, the more demanding a lot of career paths will become.

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Managers play a role of growing importance in coordinating complex, large-scale production processes.

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To hire a risky and iffy worker, without a competent overseer, simply isn’t worth it, no matter how low the wage.

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The growing value of conscientiousness in the workplace helps women do better than men at work and in colleges and universities.

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There is no high morale without exclusion, no integrity without exclusion, and no corporate culture without exclusion.

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Labor market polarization means that workers are, to an increasing degree, falling into two camps. They either do very well in labor markets or they don’t do well at all.

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A lot of jobs aren’t worth as much as before, and they are not being replaced by a comparable number of high-earning slots.

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It’s clear: The world is demanding more in the way of credentials, more in the way of ability, and it is passing along most of the higher rewards to a relatively small cognitive elite.

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As a general rule, the age structure of achievement is being ratcheted upward due to specialization and the growth of knowledge.

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Labor markets are tough, and not always fair, but intelligence will be rewarded for a long time to come.

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