Populists on both sides of the political aisle routinely announce that the American Dream is dead.
According to them, the game has been rigged by elites, workers can't get ahead, wages have been stagnant for decades, and the middle class is dying.
Michael R.
Strain, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, disputes this rhetoric as both wrong and dangerous.
In this succinctly argued volume, he shows that, on measures of economic opportunity and quality.
Templeton Press The american dream is not dead: (but populism could kill it), paperback/michael r. strain
