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Tyler Cowen on Reading

EconTalk - April 18, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
Intellectual omnivore Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts talk about their reading habits, their favorite books, and the pile of books on their nightstands right now.

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The 2019 Holberg Debate: "Why I am still a communist" with Slavoj Žižek and Tyler Cowen

Holberg Prize Talks - January 02, 2020 15:21 - 2 hours
Slavoj Žižek has been called the «the most dangerous philosopher in the West» and a cultural theorist superstar, as he mixes Marxism with pop culture and psychoanalysis. In an age where the principles of the free marked have become the driving force of both the economy, public services, foreign p...

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Conversations with Tyler: Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen on the Nature and Causes of Progress (Bonus)

Podcast Notes Playlist: Latest Episodes - November 28, 2019 09:01 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 72 ratings
Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The rate of progress in the U.S. has slowed Between 1920-1970, productivity growth in the U.S. hovered between 1.7-1.9%/year. Nowadays, most economists think it’s much lower (~0.4%). “If you have a growth rate that’s 1% lower, over the course of a bit more than a ...

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Tech and Progress with Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen

Tech & Society with Mark Zuckerberg - November 25, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★ - 68 ratings
Mark sat down with Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, and Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University, to discuss what drives progress and how to accelerate it. 

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Episode 118: Tyler Cowen discusses Stubborn Attachments

Elucidations - September 12, 2019 17:50 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratings
In this episode, Tyler Cowen lays out an interesting normative ethical theory according to which we should be utilitarians, but with a twist: we should be utilitarians who care just as much about the humans of the future as we care about people now. Re-emphasizing our commitment to future people,...

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Tyler Cowen on Big Business

EconTalk - August 19, 2019 06:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
Author and economist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University talks about his book, Big Business, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Cowen argues that big corporations in America are underrated and under-appreciated. He even defends the financial sector while adding some caveats along the way. This ...

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A Love Letter to Big Business (Glenn Loury & Tyler Cowen)

Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show - July 31, 2019 00:22 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Tyler's new book, Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero ... The case against splitting up the big tech companies ... Tyler: CEOs largely deserve their high pay ... Is campaign finance overrated? ... Tyler: Advertising is a good thing ... The public's (possibly justified) disillusi...

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Tyler Cowen on the Culture of Big Business in the United States

Macro Musings with David Beckworth - July 22, 2019 04:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 334 ratings
Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University and is the co-author of the popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution. Tyler has published widely in economics and is the author of numerous books including his 2017 book, *The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the...

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In Defense of Big Business (with Tyler Cowen)

Free Thoughts - May 17, 2019 04:15 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 272 ratings
Tyler Cowen joins us to discuss his new book; Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero. Throughout the conversation, Trevor and Aaron ask Tyler about crony capitalism, how Trump engages with big businesses, and the role of CEO’s. Cowen believes that big businesses are actually given ...

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Ep. 1398 Tyler Cowen on Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero

The Tom Woods Show - May 03, 2019 23:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.2K ratings
Big business has become a villain not just to the progressive left but also to the populist right and even to many libertarians, who think they see cronyism everywhere. Lost amid this climate of condemnation is a sober assessment of the true record of big business in improving our lives. Tyler Co...

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Rationally Speaking #232 - Tyler Cowen on "Defending big business against its critics"

Rationally Speaking Podcast - April 30, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 464 ratings
Economist Tyler Cowen discusses his latest book, "Big Business: A love-letter to an American anti-hero." Why has anti-capitalist sentiment increased recently, and to what extent is it justified? How much are corporations to blame for wage stagnation, climbing cost of living, or the slow response ...

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56. Dr. Tyler Cowen — How an Economist Views the World

The Michael Shermer Show - March 06, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 361 ratings
In this wide ranging dialogue Dr. Shermer speaks with the famed economist Dr. Tyler Cowen, whose new book, Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals, is “a vision for a society of free, prosperous, and responsible individuals.” Dr. Cowen makes ...

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155. Tyler Cowen: Be Dynamic

Love Your Work - December 06, 2018 12:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 198 ratings
When your life gets too comfortable, you stop taking risks. Loss aversion takes hold and you become complacent. You stop innovating. You stop being dynamic. By the time you realize you've become irrelevant, it's already too late to change. This is one of the main themes behind the work of Tyle...

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19 | Tyler Cowen on Maximizing Growth and Thinking for the Future

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas - October 22, 2018 13:50 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratings
Economics, like other sciences (social and otherwise), is about what the world does; but it's natural for economists to occasionally wander out into the question of what we should do as we live in the world. A very good example of this is a new book by economist Tyler Cowen, Stubborn At...

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#45 - Tyler Cowen's case for maximising econ growth, stabilising civilization & thinking long-term

80,000 Hours Podcast - October 17, 2018 18:13 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 236 ratings
I've probably spent more time reading Tyler Cowen - Professor of Economics at George Mason University - than any other author. Indeed it's his incredibly popular blog Marginal Revolution that prompted me to study economics in the first place. Having spent thousands of hours absorbing Tyl...

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161: Tyler Cowen on Stubborn Attachments - A Vision for a Society of Free and Prosperous Individuals

Economic Rockstar - October 11, 2018 21:56 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 136 ratings
Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and serves as chairman and general director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is coauthor of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution and cofounder of the online educational platform Margin...

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#039 Questions vs. Stories w/ Tyler Cowen

Spellbound - October 08, 2018 09:05 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 149 ratings
Economist and New York Times Bestselling Author, Tyler Cowen, on Stubborn Attachments, how stories can inspire questions that make life better for all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Tyler Cowen: The Quiet Dangers of Complacency

Hurry Slowly - December 05, 2017 06:21 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 571 ratings
Economist Tyler Cowen on how technology is making us more complacent and less willing to take the risks that drive self-transformation.

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Episode 270: Tyler Cowen

Longform - November 15, 2017 17:13 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Tyler Cowen is an economist, the co-founder of Marginal Revolution, and the host of Conversations with Tyler. His latest book is The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream. “I think of my central contribution, or what I’m trying to have it be, is teaching people to th...

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Tyler Cowen on Stubborn Attachments, Prosperity, and the Good Society

EconTalk - August 07, 2017 06:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and the co-host of the blog Marginal Revolution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Stubborn Attachments, his book-length treatment of how to think about public policy. Cowen argues that economic growth--properly defined--is the moral key to maintai...

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Ep. 575: Tyler Cowen Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following - July 28, 2017 02:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 567 ratings
My guest today is Tyler Cowen, the author of “The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream.” Tyler first noticed a problem in America when he began traveling after the financial crisis and saw how “comfortable” life had become for many Americans. People were not taking r...

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Gist: Tyler Cowen Fears for Our Future

Slate Daily Feed - July 18, 2017 22:47 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 1K ratings
Economist Tyler Cowen is disdainful of social media, heartened by recent immigrants, and wary of pot. He thinks that, in our collective desire for comfort, we are postponing big and necessary changes that will sow instability in the years ahead. “Right now Americans are failing to regenerate sour...

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Tyler Cowen on The Complacent Class

EconTalk - May 08, 2017 06:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
Author and economist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, The Complacent Class. Cowen argues that the United States has become complacent and the result is a loss of dynamism in the economy and in American life, generally. Cowen provides a ...

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52 – Tyler Cowen on Complacency, Immobility, and Stagnation

Macro Musings with David Beckworth - April 10, 2017 10:12 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 334 ratings
Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University as well as the general director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He joins the show to discuss his new book, *The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream.* Tyler argues that restlessness ...

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Maker Stories: Episode 25 w/ Tyler Cowen

Product Hunt Radio - August 13, 2015 15:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 71 ratings
Tyler Cowen and I discuss why he thinks Elon Musk is overrated, religion is underrated, happiness overrated, and much more. Tyler Cowen is one of my favorite economists and bloggers - check out his blog here: http://marginalrevolution.com

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Ep. 255: Tyler Cowen Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following - July 09, 2014 22:26 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 567 ratings
My guest today is Tyler Cowen, an American economist, columnist and blogger. He is a professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in the economics department. He hosts the economics blog Marginal Revolution, together with co-author Alex Tabarrok. The topic i...

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Tyler Cowen on Inequality, the Future, and Average is Over

EconTalk - September 30, 2013 06:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and blogger at Marginal Revolution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, Average is Over. Cowen takes a provocative look at how the growing power of artificial intelligence embodied in machines and technologies might change labor mark...

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Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen on personal economies

Notebook on Cities and Culture - August 06, 2009 14:24 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratings
A conversation with Tyler Cowen, professor of economics at George Mason University and founding blogger of Marginal Revolution. Cowen's new book is Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World.

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Economist and blogger Tyler Cowen

Notebook on Cities and Culture - January 18, 2008 07:50 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratings
A conversation about using incentives, eating ethnic food and becoming a cultural billionaire with Tyler Cowen, professor of economics at George Mason University and blogger at Marginal Revolution.