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Big business, a love letter to an American anti-hero, Tyler Cowen

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Big business

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Tyler Cowen

a love letter to an American anti-hero

"We 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 sekptical politicans like Bernie Sanders, who said 'If a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist,' to millennials, only 42 percetn to whom support capitalism, belief in big business is at an alltime low. But are big companies inherently evil> If business is so bad, why does it remain so integral to the basic functional of Ameerica? Economist and bestselling authro Tyler owen says our biggest problem is that we don't love business enough. In [this book], Cowen puts forth an impassioned defense of corporations and their essential role in a balanced, productive, and progressive sociaty. He dismantles common misconceptsions and untagles conflicting intuituions. According to a 2016 Gallup survey, only 12 percent of American says thet they trust big business 'quite a lot,' and only 6 percent trust it 'a great deal.' Yet, in practice, Americans as a group are remarkably willing to trust businesses, whether in the form of buying a new phone on th eday of its release or simply showing up to work in the expetation they will be paid. Cowen iillusminates the crucial role businesses play in spurring innovation, rewarding talent and hard work, and crating the bounty on which we've all come to depend."-- Jacket

Introduction: a new pro-business manifesto -- Are businesses more fraudulent than the rest of us? -- Are CEOs paid too much? -- Is work fun? -- How monopolistic is American big business? -- Are the big tech companies evil? -- What is Wall Street good for anyway? -- Crony capitalism: how much does big business control the American government? -- If business is so good, why is it so disliked?