{"author":"Tyler Cowen","author_id":"Tyler+Cowen","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Tyler Cowen","tags":["financial-crisis","financial-crisis-of-2007-2011","income-inequality","innovation","recession","technology","technology-enchantment","the-great-stagnation","the-recession"],"id":70994,"author_id":"Tyler+Cowen"},{"text":"For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.","author":"Tyler Cowen","tags":["tax","think","carbon "],"id":104307,"author_id":"Tyler+Cowen"},{"text":"In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.","author":"Tyler Cowen","tags":["music","good","creative "],"id":125561,"author_id":"Tyler+Cowen"},{"text":"Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.","author":"Tyler Cowen","tags":["economics","food","supply-and-demand"],"id":162505,"author_id":"Tyler+Cowen"},{"text":"The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.","author":"Tyler Cowen","tags":["good","innovation","great "],"id":205257,"author_id":"Tyler+Cowen"},{"text":"I've been a foodie most of my life. I started when I lived for a year in Germany in my early 20s, and here was this new food environment, and I decided I needed to make sense of it. And I found it was the rules of economics that do the best job. Food is a capitalist product of supply and demand.","author":"Tyler Cowen","tags":["life","best","job "],"id":227573,"author_id":"Tyler+Cowen"},{"text":"A lot of local food is very tasty. I'm very happy to eat it. I just don't think it's the same thing as saving the world.","author":"Tyler Cowen","tags":["happy","world","think "],"id":254764,"author_id":"Tyler+Cowen"},{"text":"When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the ones who are modest and who know when to listen to the computer. Often, what the human adds is knowledge of when the computer needs to look more deeply.","author":"Tyler Cowen","tags":["knowledge","best","team "],"id":260683,"author_id":"Tyler+Cowen"},{"text":"The Christian right, which trumpets the theme of family values, damns contemporary culture for undermining older traditions. Yet many individuals from this camp are not concerned first and foremost about family values per se. Family is a codeword for constraint; families and family values place constraints on individuals more effectively than any other institution, including government. The Christian right seeks a society in which all are constrained; they reject big government for failing at constraint, and for undermining those institutions, like the family, that have a chance at succeeding.","author":"Tyler Cowen","tags":["christianity","conservatism","family","government"],"id":304855,"author_id":"Tyler+Cowen"},{"text":"I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free.","author":"Tyler Cowen","tags":["education","best","service "],"id":306249,"author_id":"Tyler+Cowen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}