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Failure by Design by Josh Bivens: Review/summary
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Failure by Design

By Josh Bivens

Length: 120 pages

Rating: 10/10

First Published: 2011

Get it: UK 🇬🇧 | US 🇺🇸

Last read: 2022

This book is a must-read for millenials or anyone younger. It explains all the reasons behind the economic malaise that our generation feels.

Economic shocks happen—that will never change and is indeed “like the weather.” But what determines how much human suffering these shocks leave in their wake is driven by social and political choices about how the economy is managed.

I feels like it shouldn’t be this hard to get a job. It feels like jobs don’t last. It feels like normal jobs used to be enough to afford a house. All of these were feelings, I didn’t have any data to confirm them.

Well, It’s all in this book, all the data is there, across many dimensions.


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