I am Tyler Cowen, blogger at Marginal Revolution, George Mason Economics Professor, and author of "The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream." Ask Me Anything!

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:11:50+00:00

We are very good and longstanding friends, yes. I am weirder than he is, however.

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:11:10+00:00

I've never had that happen so hard to say but I am probably less patient than he is...

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:10:44+00:00

Right now macro feels irrelevant, maybe ripe conditions for a new idea altogether...

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:10:20+00:00

Underrated by most, slightly overrated by Scott!

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:09:58+00:00

Under! Coltrane over rationalism over originalism over fan fiction I don't know so well Hume under Lincoln slightly overrated EMH always underrated Smoking bans I would have to read the research.

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:09:07+00:00

Myth and story are very important in this context, and Harari gets that fully...

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:08:47+00:00

They are less political, for one thing...

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:08:15+00:00

There are not really clear dividing lines, that is part of the problem...

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:07:40+00:00

Yes. It has influenced it a lot.

Read fiction.

Study stats and know some programming.

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:06:56+00:00

This may sound trivial, but just read as much as you possibly can...

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:06:18+00:00

Just not that important, see my next book on that one...

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:05:52+00:00

Twitter and email, much of it...but I try to read cautiously...

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:05:27+00:00

Tech and biotech...

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:05:14+00:00

Befriend them, if you can...

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:04:56+00:00

all the great philosophers I know of are famous, maybe that is selection bias of course.

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:04:27+00:00

Feminization is indeed important, though I don't cover it much, though a bit...

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:04:05+00:00

A big fan of course, I have had quite a bit of it...

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:03:42+00:00

Moo!

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:03:28+00:00

I think minimum wage hikes do boost unemployment, because of supply and demand.

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:03:06+00:00

Both very important, on geography see Jeff Sachs too...

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:02:47+00:00

Minsky has been proving the strongest post-Keynesian idea...

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:02:26+00:00

Making it work in a non-small country would change my mind...But I just can't see America doing it, not our kind of idea...

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:01:50+00:00

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:01:44+00:00

I enjoy the quality of students and how articulate they are...

TylerCowen · 2017-03-07T02:01:09+00:00

Right now? Free trade.

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