Tyler Cowen talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about libertarianism, viewpoint diversity in Washington, D.C., and his new online university

Quillette Podcast

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Society & Culture, Politics, News, Science, News Commentary

4.6 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Tyler Cowen, economics professor at George Mason University, talks to Jonathan Kay about the limits of libertarianism, viewpoint diversity in Washington, D.C., and Marginal Revolution University, his new online education venture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.
0:08.0	Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.
0:15.2	Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself,
0:18.7	associate editor Toby Young and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay.
0:22.4	You can support our podcast by visiting
0:24.6	Patreon.com forward slash quilette and becoming a monthly patron. By becoming a
0:29.5	monthly patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter.
0:33.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast.
0:35.0	I'm Jonathan Kay, Colette's Canadian editor.
0:38.0	If you're a Libertarian or just a student of Modern Economics,
0:42.0	Tyler Cowan is a name you will know. His books include The Complacent Class,
0:46.4	the Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream, and his brand new St Martin's Press
0:50.5	publication, Big Business, A Love letter to an American anti-hero.
0:55.5	Cowan is a professor at George Mason University where he holds the Holberts
0:59.4	C Harris chair in the Economics Department and a co-blogger at Marginal Revolution, together with Canadian
1:06.4	American economist Alex Tabarock. Cowan is also the Chairman and faculty director of the Mercata Center of George Mason University, located in Arlington, Virginia.
1:17.0	That's where I visited Cowan to interview him for the Colette Podcast.
1:21.0	Here are excerpts from our conversation.
1:26.8	You were New Jersey State chess champion at the age of 15.
1:31.1	How did that happen?
1:32.4	I started playing chess seriously in 1972. I had my appendix out. I was in the hospital. I started watching the Bobby Fisher match against Boris Spowski.
1:42.6	And then I just played more and I liked it.
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