Thomas Frank — The Creativity Con: How Innovation Became America's Biggest Racket — at Conn Ave

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From the best selling and always prescient author of What's the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, Liberal comes a bold indictment of America's chronic obsession with creativity and innovation, showing how these beloved ideas came to dominate our political and economic conversation, all while serving to mask inequality and protect elite interests. Innovation and creativity have been the defining watchwords of American exceptionalism for decades, used by business thinkers, tech gurus, military strategists, educators and urban planners to describe our unique standing in the world. While other countries supposedly suffer from regimentation and a fatal lack of imagination, the United States is often portrayed as an unmatched dynamo of new ideas and products. In his new book,…

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