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Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with Tyler Cowen about his fascinating new book Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World. Our recorded conversation is now the inaugural Occasional Podcast. The interview will be available on iTunes soon, but you can listen now through the embedded player above.
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A professor of economics at George Mason University, Tyler Cowen is known to many habitual web surfers through his always absorbing blog Marginal Revolution.
A behavioral economist, Tyler is also deeply interested in culture, technology, and the arts. His latest book combines all these subjects in one absorbing read.
Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World is loaded with provocative ideas and surprising claims. I still haven’t wrapped my mind around a number of Cowen’s big ideas and insights. I’ll be posting more about the book in the coming days, but (like it or not) I think he has identified some profound truths about our increasingly fragmented culture. [click to continue…]
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