Tyler Cowen

France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well.…

— Tyler Cowen

When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the…

— Tyler Cowen

“The great adventures of life, the surprise of strangers, of strangeness, of the electric and eclectic moments of happenstance, and also of…

— Tyler Cowen

“Mark Liszewski, executive director of the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum (Hershey, Pennsylvania), remarked: “Instead of Ford versus Chevy, it’s Apple…

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“Americans are in fact working much harder than before to postpone change, or to avoid it altogether, and that is true whether…

— Tyler Cowen

“three-quarters of today’s youth between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four are unfit to serve for one reason or another.”

— Tyler Cowen

“Once you're using sides and sauces you're on the right track and you're also following the general principles about how to eat…

— Tyler Cowen

A lot of local food is very tasty. I'm very happy to eat it. I just don't think it's the same thing…

— Tyler Cowen

If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labor market prospects are likely to be cheery.…

— Tyler Cowen

Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it's underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend…

— Tyler Cowen

“In other words, a culture of the casual is a culture of people who already have achieved something and who already can…

— Tyler Cowen

I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization.

— Tyler Cowen

“Few people read coffee-table photo books, and indeed they are not intended to be read. I find the text in these books…

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“As chain stores rise, there is also a loss of dynamism, competition, and market entry for new ideas and products. Keep in…

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The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just…

— Tyler Cowen

Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary…

— Tyler Cowen

“...apart from the seemingly magical internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953...The wonders portrayed…

— Tyler Cowen

After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus.

— Tyler Cowen

Most of us are not pure self-starters; most people need role models, they need coaches, they need exemplars, they maybe need some…

— Tyler Cowen

Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I…

— Tyler Cowen

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

— Tyler Cowen

If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the Great Stagnation, it is this: Recent and current innovation is more…

— Tyler Cowen

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

— Tyler Cowen

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

— Tyler Cowen

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

— Tyler Cowen