Intro to The Age of Entitlement book

Doug Friesen isn’t an economist. He’s a builder and home designer who, upon watching the business he painstakingly built over 30 years suffer and fall apart amid the economic meltdown, got angry enough to do something about it.

The result is The Age of Entitlement, a book that promises to help average Americans understand just how the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression happened.

The story, Friesen says, is one of corporate greed exacerbated by a society that has developed a profound sense of entitlement and an expectation of instant gratification.

With chapter titles like, “Chronology of a Crash,” “Self Esteem Run Amok” and “The Housing Bubble – or Hell in a Handbasket,” The Age of Entitlement concludes by addressing the question that many people are asking: “Where do we go from here?”