Tyler Cowen
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Did UBI make people happier?
Eh, only in the short run: We study the causal impacts of income on a rich array of employment outcomes, leveraging an experiment in which 1,000 low-income individuals were randomized into receiving…
There are now eight episodes
The Everyday Abundance podcast explores the hidden histories behind everyday activities and the technologies we don’t even know are technologies. Virginia Postrel and Charles C.
Indian documentary covers EV winners
A new short documentary (22 mins) film called The 22nd Century Indian by Shaurya Sinha offers an optimistic take on India, and also covers five (!) Emergent Ventures winners.
My excellent Conversation with Luke Burgis
Here is the audio, video, and transcript.
How much can you consistently care about animal welfare?
We explore the welfare costs of the loss of animal life in a consequentialist total utilitarian framework that incorporates the intrinsic value of living beings through their sentience.
Declining Occupations and Career Outcomes in the United States
This strikes me as somewhat less of a problem than I might have thought: We study long-run career consequences of initial employment in an occupation that subsequently declines.
Capitalizing untethered AI agents
That is my latest piece of writing, co-authored with Sonia Farrell Pearson of Harvard.
Why Is Tyler Cowen Optimistic About AI?
Tyler Cowen is an economist, author, and professor who holds the Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and serves as chairman and faculty director of the Mercatus Center.
Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Catholicism, and the Age of Social Contagion
Luke Burgis left Wall Street after two years, founded a few successful companies in his twenties, then walked away to spend three years in a Roman seminary on the path to the priesthood.
Tyler Cowen – Tetragrammaton
In this clip, Rick speaks with Tyler Cowen about the expectation to go to college established by big education.