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The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America (Oren Cass)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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Cass: Productive Pluralism, Not Economic Piety

David Frum: Cass offers a fresh way of looking at this by directly rejecting the metaphor of the economic pie. It is therefore not a substitute for good jobs for all workers to instead maximize GDP through societally destructive methods, he says. He argues that we are capable of being happy if we are productive, yet very poor and much more likely happy than if we are unproductive but still can buy cheap Chinese crap every year.

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