Contrary to what you may have heard, the middle class is not dying and robots are not stealing our jobs. In fact, writes Adam Davidson - one of our leading public voices on economic issues - the twenty-first-century economic paradigm offers new ways of making money, fresh paths toward professional fulfilment, and unprecedented opportunities for curious, ambitious individuals to combine the things they love with their careers. Drawing on the stories of average people doing exactly this - an accountant overturning his industry, a sweatshop-owner's daughter fighting for better working conditions, an Amish craftsman meeting the technological needs of Amish farmers - as well as the latest academic research, Davidson shows us how the twentieth-century economy of scale has given way in this century to an economy of passion. He makes clear, too, that though the adjustment has brought measures of dislocation, confusion, and even panic, these are most often the result of a lack of understanding. In The Passion Economy , he delineates the ground rules of the new economy, and armed with these, we begin to see how we can succeed in it according to its own terms - intimacy, insight, attention, automation, and, of course, passion. An indispensable roadmap and a refreshingly optimistic take on our economic future.

His book injects some grounded, non-jargon-laden reality into the bland corporate-speak around notions of passion, engagement and purpose.

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An indispensable roadmap and a refreshingly optimistic take on our economic future: Award-winning New Yorker staff writer and brilliant creator of NPR's Planet Money shows us how the 21st century economic paradigm offers unprecedented opportunities for curious, ambitious individuals to combine the things they love with their careers.

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Adam Davidson is currently a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes The Financial Page column. He also co-founded and co-hosted National Public Radio's "Planet Money," after serving as the international business and economics correspondent for NPR.

His co-reported episode for "This American Life," "The Giant Pool of Money," which received the Peabody, DuPont-Columbia, and Polk Awards, and was named one of the top works of journalism of the decade by New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

His work is heard regularly on "Morning Edition," "All Things Considered," and he is a frequently featured guest on MSNBC, Meet The Press, Anderson Cooper 360, Good Morning America, and other television news shows.

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"New Yorker" staff writer and creator of NPR's "Planet Money" Adam Davidson presents a refreshingly optimistic yet savvy and astute slant on the economic moment, showing how the nature of contemporary economics gives people more opportunity to reconcile what they enjoy or care about with their careers.