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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Tyler Cowen

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6908 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Tyler Cowen is one of the top thinkers in the world: the thinkers’ thinker. A professor of economics at George Mason University, he has one of the most popular economics sites on the internet, Marginal Revolution, where he’s blogged every day for over 20 years. It also runs the online educational platform Marginal Revolution University. However, he may be best known for his popular podcast, Conversations with Tyler. Tyler is a New York Times bestselling author, having written 19 books, including Average is Over, The Great Stagnation, Discover Your Inner Economist, and Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World. ------- Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra ------- Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra ------- Manna Vitality https://mannavitality.com/ ------- LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra

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0:00.0

Tetragrammaton.

0:04.0

Tetracket.

0:07.0

I think there are two core lessons to start with in economics.

0:26.6

The first is incentives matter.

0:29.6

So when you think about a social situation or an economy,

0:32.6

just try to figure out what all the incentives are.

0:35.6

It doesn't have to be money.

0:37.5

It could be fame or recognition

0:39.3

or just actually not wanting to have to work.

0:42.2

The second lesson of economics, as I see it,

0:44.9

is there is no free lunch.

0:47.5

So if you want to do something,

0:48.8

there's a trade-off, there's an opportunity cost,

0:51.4

don't think that you can just get something for free. So again, if you're

0:55.1

analyzing a choice and a business with respect to policy, if you don't understand what is the

1:00.3

opportunity cost, you probably don't know what you're doing. So I would say those are the two

1:05.0

key lessons of economics. Most good economics is fairly simple. If economics is super complicated, maybe I wouldn't entirely

1:12.5

trust it. And just take those as some key concepts out there to explore life. How different is

1:18.9

the theoretical versus the practical when it comes to economic matters? When the theoretical is

1:26.4

simple, it usually makes sense. So if you can explain an economic

1:30.3

idea to someone who is not an economist, that's a good sign. There's so much academic economics

1:36.9

out there. And some of it is very accurate, but often it's not that relevant. It's just designed to

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