Tyler Cowen
FollowThe latest interviews, podcast appearances, and blog posts from Tyler Cowen, updated daily.
Further progress in South America
The share of people who are hungry has been decreasing faster in South America than anywhere else in the world.
The demand for human enhancement technologies
When a new technology promises large private benefits but may impose social costs that markets do not price, demand need not reveal how citizens want it governed.
The common sense of Fareed Zakaria
This is one of the best Op-Eds you will read this year, though it deliberately deemphasizes the personal (no one is attacked) in a manner that will result in less attention. Better to write the truth!
Odysseus notes
The subsection of the Georgi Gospodinov novel runs like this: The Shortest Novel About Odysseus After His Return Home One night, now old and flabby and starting to forget, he leaves his home secretly.
Crypto markets in everything? (moo)
Farmers in Parana, Brazil, struggling to get banks to loan them cash, became the first to tokenize livestock and place 10 dairy milk cows’ tokens for trade on the country’s B3 national stock exchange.
A natural experiment in economics
To study whether and how academics respond to political pressure, we exploit a natural experiment: the publication in early 2025 of a “blacklist” of words flagged by the U. S. government.
The Decision, the sequel
Imagine your career were coming to a close, how would you want it to end? By earning an especially large sum of money? Publishing a final wonderful paper? With an amazing act of mentorship?
The optimal Bayesian update?
I see at least three updates one might make from the recent OAI/Hugging Face hacking incident: 1.
What I’ve been reading
1. Christopher Priest and Nina Allan, The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard.
My excellent Conversation with Andrew Graham-Dixon
Here is the audio, video, and transcript.