Tyler Cowen on Culture, Autism, and Creating Your Own Economy

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🗓️ 7 September 2009

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and author of Create Your Own Economy talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his recent book. The conversation ranges across a wide array of topics related to information, the arts, and the culture of the internet. Topics include how autistics perceive information and what non-autistics can learn from them, what Buddhism might teach us about our digital lives, the pace of change in the use of technology, Nozick's experience machine and the relative importance of authenticity and what the Alchian and Allen theorem has to do with the internet and culture.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:12.5	I'm your host Russ Roberts of George Mason University and Stanford University's Hoover
0:17.3	Institution.
0:18.7	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, find other episodes, comment on this podcast,
0:25.8	and find links to other information related to today's conversation.
0:29.9	Our email address is mailadicontalk.org, we'd love to hear from you.
0:38.7	Today is September 2nd and my guest is Tyler Cowan, Professor of Economics at George
0:43.4	Mason University.
0:44.4	His latest book is, Create Your Own Economy, The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World,
0:50.4	which is the subject of our conversation.
0:51.9	Tyler, welcome back to Econ Talk.
0:53.7	I'm happy to be here.
0:55.3	Your book, Create Your Own Economy, has an unusual origin.
0:58.8	How it came about?
1:00.5	Well the origin of this book, I think like all my books, it's not unusual, it has to do
1:04.3	with myself, and questions that I think about.
1:08.1	But I began pondering my own ability to absorb and process a lot of information rapidly.
1:13.5	And I received an email from a woman named Kathleen Fassanella, which had to do with autism.
1:18.5	And it turns out that autistics are very often the people who can process and digest a lot
1:23.5	of information in favorite areas very rapidly.
1:26.6	But to figure myself out better, I started digging deeply into this topic.
1:30.8	That's really the approximate origins of the book, but I don't think that's unusual at
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