Tyler Cowen on the Pandemic, Revisited

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🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Blogger, author, podcaster, economist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University discusses the lessons learned from the pandemic with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Appearing roughly one year after his first conversation on the pandemic, Cowen revisits the predictions he made then and what he has learned for the next time.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you could subscribe, comment on this episode and find links
0:18.4	and other information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.7	Today is March 15th and my guest is economist, blogger, podcaster and author, Tyler Cowan
0:43.4	of George Mason University.
0:44.9	This is Tyler's 13th appearance on econtalk.
0:47.1	It was last year in March of 2020 to talk about the pandemic.
0:51.4	We recorded that conversation almost a year ago to the day.
0:55.0	And Tyler was my first guest to discuss the pandemic.
0:57.7	I hope he's the last one, but I suspect not.
1:01.3	Tyler, welcome back to econtalk.
1:03.7	Thank you, Russ.
1:04.7	Always an honor to be with you.
1:06.3	Given that this is roughly the one year anniversary of the real start of the fear of the
1:10.1	pandemic anyway, I thought it would be useful to look back on what we said a year ago and
1:14.0	to talk about what we've learned since then and what we still have to learn.
1:17.0	Why don't you start us off by talking about what you think are the most important lessons
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