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Tyler Cowen (born January 21, 1962) occupies the Holbert C. Harris Chair of economics as a professor at George Mason University and is co-author, with Alex Tabarrok, of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution. He currently writes the "Economic Scene" column for the New York Times and writes for such magazines as The New Republic and The Wilson Quarterly.
Cowen's primary research interest is the economics of culture. He has written books on fame (What Price Fame?), art (In Praise of Commercial Culture), and cultural trade (Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World's Cultures). In Markets and Cultural Voices, he relays how globalization is changing the world of three Mexican amate painters. Cowen argues that free markets change culture for the better, allowing them to evolve into something more people want. Other books include Public Goods and Market Failures, The Theory of Market Failure, Explorations in the New Monetary Economics, Risk and Business Cycles, Economic Welfare, and New Theories of Market Failure.
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Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change have produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs.
The problem, according to legendary blogger, economist and bestelling author Tyler Cowen, is that Americans today have broken from this tradition—we’re working harder than ever to avoid change. We're moving residences less, marrying people more like ourselves and choosing our music and our mates based on algorithms that wall us off from anything that might be too new or too different. Match.com matches us in love. Spotify and Pandora match us in music. Facebook matches us to just about everything else.
Of course, this “matching culture” brings tremendous positives: music we like, partners who make us happy, neighbors who want the same things. We’re more comfortable. But, according to Cowen, there are significant collateral downsides attending this comfort, among them heightened inequality and segregation and decreased incentives to innovate and create.
The Great Social Stagnation argues that this cannot go on forever. We are postponing change, due to our near-sightedness and extreme desire for comfort, but ultimately this will make change, when it comes, harder. The forces unleashed by the Great Stagnation will eventually lead to a major fiscal and budgetary crisis: impossibly expensive rentals for our most attractive cities, worsening of residential segregation, and a decline in our work ethic. The only way to avoid this difficult future is for Americans to force themselves out of their comfortable slumber—to embrace their restless tradition again.
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美国乔治梅森大学经济学教授，是泰勒·考恩（Tyler Cowen）的正式工作职位。而他赖以成名的身份，是全球最受欢迎的经济学博客“边际革命”（Marginal Revolution）的主要作者。考恩是位博学的天才。在这个学科分工日渐精细化的时代，他不仅对经济学各个子学科有深刻的把握，有...
评分有人说，美国是一片充满机遇的土地。美国人在开国元勋们的雄心鼓舞下尽情挥洒自己的活力。多样性是美国的优势所在，也写在了美国的国家格言——E pluribus unum（“合众为一”）中 。美国人拥抱变化与再创造，而他们也乐意认为这一点将美国与欧洲或亚洲国家区别开来。 经济学家...
评分有人说，美国是一片充满机遇的土地。美国人在开国元勋们的雄心鼓舞下尽情挥洒自己的活力。多样性是美国的优势所在，也写在了美国的国家格言——E pluribus unum（“合众为一”）中 。美国人拥抱变化与再创造，而他们也乐意认为这一点将美国与欧洲或亚洲国家区别开来。 经济学家...
评分美国乔治梅森大学经济学教授，是泰勒·考恩（Tyler Cowen）的正式工作职位。而他赖以成名的身份，是全球最受欢迎的经济学博客“边际革命”（Marginal Revolution）的主要作者。考恩是位博学的天才。在这个学科分工日渐精细化的时代，他不仅对经济学各个子学科有深刻的把握，有...
评分有人说，美国是一片充满机遇的土地。美国人在开国元勋们的雄心鼓舞下尽情挥洒自己的活力。多样性是美国的优势所在，也写在了美国的国家格言——E pluribus unum（“合众为一”）中 。美国人拥抱变化与再创造，而他们也乐意认为这一点将美国与欧洲或亚洲国家区别开来。 经济学家...
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精英日课解读： 1.美国没有户口，城市限制人的办法是直接限制城市开发。邮政编码区分街区，好人更想搬离，收入隔离越来越严重。社会分成三级：上层是好人，中层是忙人，底层是老实人。 2.美国近50年创新停滞，大企业垄断行业。美国GDP增长停滞。后石油危机和后嬉皮士运动让美国小富即安。 3.美国现匹配者多奋斗者少，匹配是对现有资源进行调度，它可没有创造新的资源。从安全环境里长大的孩子没有企业家精神。 4.美国如今是建立在低社会流动性上的文化。同性恋婚姻合法化是美国追求安定的结果。反信号是有钱穿破衣服这让人没有奋斗空间。 5. 强制性支出大，美国背上福利负担。也许在未来十到二十年的时间范围内，美国就有可能会出现混乱。当然美国藏富于民，国力仍在，一定程度的混乱也不见得就是灾难，也许会是活力的重生。
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