Tyler Cowen Quotes

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• Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

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  Creative, Trying, Demand

  Tyler Cowen (2012). “An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies”, p.25, Penguin

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• The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.

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  Down And, Information, Return

  "Which job skills will be most important in the future?". Interview with Eric Barker, theweek.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.

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  Decision, Understanding, Helping

  "Inside the Mind of the Inner Economist". Interview with Nick Gillespie, reason.com. August 9, 2007.

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• Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

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  Real, Ideas, Diversity

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• Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.

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  Entrepreneur, Artwork, Profit

  Tyler COWEN, Tyler Cowen (2009). “In Praise of Commercial Culture”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it’s done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do.

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  Views, Done, Way

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• For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.

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  Artist, Self, Expression

  Tyler Cowen (2000). “What Price Fame?”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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• Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self-image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them.

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  Art, Self, Imperfection

  Tyler Cowen (2008). “Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist”, p.41, Penguin

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• The hours from 7 to 12 are your time to build for the future before the world descends on you.

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  World, Hours

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• Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his door and then turn you away, rather his home address is hard to find. The government handcuffs you so they don't have to shoot you trying to escape. And so on.

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  Home, Doctors, Government

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• Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.

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  Excellence, Recognition, Originality

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• The key questions will be: Are you good at working with intelligent machines or not? Are your skills a complement to the skills of the computer, or is the computer doing better without you? Worst of all, are you competing against the computer?

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  Intelligent, Keys, Skills

  "Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation". Book by Tyler Cowen, 2013.

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• The right wing will be identified with the monied class, even when the left often has more money. And the left wing will be identified as the whiners, even though the right at times whines as much or more. You might say that both sides are monied, high human capital whiners, on the whole.

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  Class, Wings, Might

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• In most of the world, breakfast is an important meal.

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  Important, Meals, World

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• Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I will be giving it a second read through right away.

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  Book, Years, Giving

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• If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the Great Stagnation, it is this: Recent and current innovation is more geared to private goods than to public goods. That simple observation ties together the three major macroeconomic events of our time: growing income inequality, stagnant median income, and the financial crisis.

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  Simple, Ties, Innovation

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• We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

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  People, Principles, Needs

  "What kind of mandate should “the right” have supported?". marginalrevolution.com. June 20, 2012.

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• Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

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  Selfishness, Defense, Libertarian

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• To get a person's real opinion, ask what she thinks everyone else believes... If people truly hold a particular belief, they are more likely to think that others agree or have had similar experiences. [People] tend to assume that other people have had life histories at least somewhat similar to their own. When we talk about other people, we are often talking about ourselves, whether we know it ourselves.

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  Real, Believe, Thinking

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• Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.

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  Art, Book, Museums

  Tyler Cowen (2008). “Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist”, p.47, Penguin

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• I'm not optimistic about reform in many, if any, policy areas at all. I think we'll make further progress by inventing new things that aren't much regulated yet and outracing bad policy. I look at so many policy areas - regulation, regulatory reform, health care reform - it's all failing, we're not making improvements, we're going backwards.

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  Optimistic, Thinking, Progress

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I sometimes call Donald Trump the placebo president. He will talk a big game, but for domestic policy I think change remarkably little.

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  Thinking, President, Sometimes

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• People feel better because Donald Trump says all kinds of things no one else would say and we get certain tendencies out of our system. So if attacking immigrants, say, is a substitute for doing something worse, there's at least a scenario under which that's a better alternative than something else that might have happened.

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  Feel Better, People, Kind

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

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  Art, Believe, Important

  Tyler Cowen (2008). “Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist”, p.41, Penguin

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• What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small l but sensible and pragmatic and with a chance of winning. Thats more or less the empty set.

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  Winning, Libertarian, Chance

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