Ep. 255: Tyler Cowen Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2014
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Tyler Cowen, an American economist, columnist and blogger. He is a professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in the economics department. He hosts the economics blog Marginal Revolution, together with co-author Alex Tabarrok.
The topic is economics.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Sabermetrics and the new idea that we will be judged by numbers
- Cowen's early experience studying under Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling
- The notion of thinking in terms of paradoxes
- Why we're moving from the 1% to the 15%
- "Average is over" and why Singapore and Israel are the two places in the world where this has come true first
- Problems because of "average is over" in Singapore
- Pure free markets
- Thinking about why past regulations have failed
- How computers change us
- Globalization, where things are headed, and what we should be prepared for
- Zero marginal product workers
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:32.7 | Today in the show I have Tyler Cohen. |
| 0:34.8 | He's an American economist, academic, and writer. |
| 0:39.1 | He's the co-author of the Popular Economics blog Marginal Revolution, also the author of multiple books. Also, he happens to be at |
| 0:45.9 | my alma mater, George Mason University. Today, in rapid fire, we cover a wide, wide selection of topics. |
| 0:55.2 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:03.4 | Hey, Tyler, Mike Covell. |
| 1:04.7 | How are you? |
| 1:05.6 | I'm fine. |
| 1:06.3 | Yourself? |
| 1:07.5 | Not too bad. |
| 1:08.4 | Not too bad. |
| 1:09.7 | Not too bad. |
| 1:10.7 | So listen, I want to give you three recommendations before we |
| 1:13.6 | start with the serious stuff this is the serious stuff three food recommendations very serious stuff |
| 1:21.3 | so two sushi places two in uh i'm in asia right now so two in tokyoukon, Matsukon, and Sushi Nakamura. |
| 1:29.7 | And I think they're both in Rupungi. |
| 1:31.9 | Both great. |
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