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The author of this article used Charles Murray’s Coming Apart as a source. He’s a pretty… controversial figure. The counterpart to him that is more progressive and less controversial is Robert Putnam. His books are a lot more digestible. I’d suggest looking up talks with the author on YouTube. (He even has a debate with Charles Murray - as they are somewhat of friends)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609334-our-kids

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50124402-the-upswing

One thing I want to mention here is that it seems that social effects come before economic effects. People go through social change and then the economics follow later. That’s the one thing I would take away from the books/talks. Somewhat ironic to many here.



I noticed that you didn't mention which of these arguments were good or bad.




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