Tyler Cowen's Rise In The World Of Economics

Business Week:

Tyler Cowen sits with a cranberry juice and a pile of books he no longer intends to read. He's at Harry's Tap Room, near the Air France ticket counter in the main terminal of Dulles International Airport, on his way to São Paulo. Two days ago he e-mailed me his reading list for the trip—27 books—and I vowed to keep up with it. Already, before he boards, he has assembled a pile of discards.

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Comments

[logicanada]

12:29 PM on 06/01/2011

"Cowen thinks that now that America has used up the frontier, educated all of the farm kids, and built a couple of cars for every family, we might be done growing for awhile."

Wrong. When you stagnate employment opportunities by doubling the available workforce ( the dawn of the double income family in 1972) resulting in the freezing of the former single income wage earners wages, and then allow a de-regulator on steroids Regan) to remove all fair trade practice both domestic and foreign and a take-over of the government by banksters (Rockefellers) you can only expect the worst . . . exporting of jobs, crappy products that need constant replacing, poor food products, higher medical expenses, the break-up of families and the eventual decline of your economy.

[Andy49]

11:06 AM on 06/01/2011

I started to read this piece unitl I got the the Libertarian Think Tank line and quite. We don't need another Libertarian economist in this nation.

[mcmutter]

09:28 AM on 06/01/2011

George Mason University .... wasn't that started by the 700 Club guys ... ?

[Howard53545]

06:35 AM on 06/01/2011

Just a scatter brain reader, no deep thought here.

[Ylmaz Kaba]

05:02 AM on 06/01/2011

Right now, they have some sort of scandal going on with climate change denier professor who was caught plagiarizi­ng and distorting to form his arguments, and he has 4 PhD students who plagiarize­d off of him for their dissertati­ons.
http://news12.blog.ac/2011/06/01/tyler-cowens-rise-in-the-world-of-economics/

[mcmutter]

09:29 AM on 06/01/2011

bullcrap ... what year

[Geelee]

09:14 PM on 05/31/2011

The one question that needs to be asked is who funds his "chair" at the university?

[specultr]

10:44 PM on 05/31/2011

George Mason is a right-wing joke of a university at that. Right now, they have some sort of scandal going on with climate change denier professor who was caught plagiarizing and distorting to form his arguments, and he has 4 PhD students who plagiarized off of him for their dissertations. And the university has been covering it up, but the scandal keeps getting reported and commented on.

[CPA 4 Life]

12:40 AM on 06/01/2011

"And the university has been covering it up"

How sure are you of that? The university responded to an FOI request for emails in less than 2 weeks. The University of East Anglia doesn't respond to FOI requests. Who is doing the obstructing and covering up?

[Social Construct]

08:54 PM on 05/31/2011

The author of that article should really think about finding another kind of job. For a piece supposedly about economics, it sure is short on the subject and long on everything but economics. Maybe that's the point, the economist can't be pinned down either.

[redsoxpagan]

08:27 PM on 05/31/2011

Anyone who is touted as the next Milton Friedman is to be avoided like the plague. Plus, the guy's a libertarian. And he suggests a book about the Civil War, because clearly "it's about stuff"? (Oh, that's so deep) And he suggest Ayn Rand.
Sadly, it's not a surprise that more economists will read him than Krugman. No wonder we're still in trouble.

[CPA 4 Life]

08:33 PM on 05/31/2011

"Anyone who is touted as the next Milton Friedman"

Reading comprehension problem? From the article...

"Tyler Cowen may well turn out to be this decade's Thomas Friedman"

Epic fail.

"Sadly, it's not a surprise that more economists will read him than Krugman"

If you hate reading about 'free trade' do not read the works that Krugman won a Nobel for.

[Anym]

09:56 PM on 05/31/2011

Thomas Friedman and his ilk should also be avoided.

http://www.nypress.com/article-19271-flat-n-all-that.html

[CPA 4 Life]

08:40 PM on 05/31/2011

"Plus, the guy's a libertaria­n."

To quote Redsoxpagan: Oh, that's so deep.

If I were a bigot like Redsox I might say: Obama needs to be avoided like the plague. Plus, the guy's black.

[themodernleader]

07:55 PM on 05/31/2011

China is perhaps the oldest nation in the world. It is burgeoning with confidence, competence and industrial, technological development. How does tyler Cowen explain that phenomenon?

[CPA 4 Life]

08:27 PM on 05/31/2011

Government (the type the left promotes) held China back in the stone age. To see how the PRC screwed up agriculture google search "famine" "Justin Yifu Lin". When Mao left things started to get better, slowly. China is 'catching up'. I think Krugman is the one that coined the term, although I am not certain.

[LogicalMathMan]

09:57 PM on 05/31/2011

China tackled it's famine problems without too much influence from any nation. Until the 60s, China faced a famine almost twice a decade. A major problem even at that time was it's population of 650million.

China tackled this problem on a national emergency footing by depriving families having more than 2 children of essential social benefits. It was not uncommon to have female fetuses aborted as a result.

In China's war with India, and after she claimed victory, over a million Chinese soldiers were summarily shot dead by her own forces, because her army was too much of a drain on the economy. No issue was raised by any Western nation, or, the UN.

[Anym]

09:58 PM on 05/31/2011

Wait are you saying that the current Government of China is one the American Right wants?

One with Government run healthcare, massive infrastructure spending, and when people in the government screw up they get k.il.led.

[LunaPark]

11:12 PM on 05/31/2011

China emulated the Hong Kong free market.

[themodernleader]

03:53 AM on 06/01/2011

Perhaps, you are half right. The Chinese copied the economic model present in the Golden Age of the American Republic. My competent economics professor in 1959 called the system "mixed economy" of free enterprise and controlled monopoly of those functions that were essentially "natural monopolies". For example, using a competitive free enterprise to deliver electricity by numerous electric lines to one building or one city would be considered folly. Yet, this natural monopolistic function must be carried out. Therefore, it must be fairly, wisely regulated to provide the most efficient, effective delivery of electricity everywhere. Free, fair enterprise that militates against monopolistic practices is everywhere else. Our economists don't tell you this story. Our arrogant leaders might lose some of their hubris and ignorance by studying the Chinese economic system (not their authoritarian political system) and try its best ingredients on our own corrupt capitalism.