Quotes by Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen

Apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn’t so different from what it was in 1953… The wonders portrayed in ‘The Jetsons,’ the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass… Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down.

Age

Space

Technology

Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

Defense

Libertarian

Selfishness

For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.

Artist

Expression

Self

I sometimes call Donald Trump the placebo president. He will talk a big game, but for domestic policy I think change remarkably little.

President

Sometimes

Thinking

If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the Great Stagnation, it is this: Recent and current innovation is more geared to private goods than to public goods. That simple observation ties together the three major macroeconomic events of our time: growing income inequality, stagnant median income, and the financial crisis.

Innovation

Simple

Ties

In most of the world, breakfast is an important meal.

Important

Meals

World

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.

Art

Book

Museums

My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it’s done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do.

Done

Views

Way

People feel better because Donald Trump says all kinds of things no one else would say and we get certain tendencies out of our system. So if attacking immigrants, say, is a substitute for doing something worse, there’s at least a scenario under which that’s a better alternative than something else that might have happened.

Feel Better

Kind

People

Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

Diversity

Ideas

Real

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Believe

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Diversity

Doctors

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Expression

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Flavor

Government

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Hours

Ideas

Important

Information

Innovation

Intelligent

Keys

Kind

Libertarian

Meals

Museums

Needs

People

President

Principles

Real

Return

Self

Selfishness

Simple

Skills

Sometimes

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Thinking

Ties

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Quotes by Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen

Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.

I sometimes call Donald Trump the placebo president. He will talk a big game, but for domestic policy I think change remarkably little.

In most of the world, breakfast is an important meal.

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.

My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it’s done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do.

Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

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