Cowen: Comparing the US to Asia rather than Europe reveals American complacency
Tyler Cowen · a16z Podcast | Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream · Jan 2, 2019 · at 19:37
Economist and author Tyler Cowen discusses the central argument of his book 'The Complacent Class' on the a16z Podcast.
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“Americans typically contrast their own nation with Western Europe. That's the tradition. And then America feels so dynamic, because Western Europe is even more sluggish. And stagnant. And that's a big mistake. The notion that you should stop being Tocqueville. Don't compare yourself to Europe so much. The action is in India and China. View this country through that lens, and you get a very different vision. You then see us as much more complacent.”
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