Tyler Cowen

3 weeks ago | hoover.org | Tyler Cowen

By Joseph Torigian, this could easily end up as one of the twenty or thirty best biographies of all time. It is about Chinese history, and is a biography’s of Xi’s father. The subtitle is The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping. The dense (and fascinating) exposition is difficult to excerpt, but here is one bit of overview:An inescapable irony sits at the heart of The Party’s Interests Come First.

3 weeks ago | thefp.com | Tyler Cowen

Tyler CowenTyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also Faculty Director of the Mercatus Center. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1987. His book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better was a New York Times best-seller.

3 weeks ago | mercatus.org | Tyler Cowen

How should we cultivate talent? This is a question I spend hours a day thinking about, trying to discover an answer. And as part of my work running Emergent Ventures, an organization that makes rapid grants to qualified applicants, over the last seven years I have been holding regular conversations every week with many of the world’s smartest young people. We now have more than 1,000 Emergent winners across the globe. Here are some of the lessons I have been learning:

3 weeks ago | open.substack.com | Tyler Cowen

How should we cultivate talent? This is a question I spend hours a day thinking about, trying to discover an answer. And as part of my work running Emergent Ventures, an organization that makes rapid grants to qualified applicants, over the last seven years I have been holding regular conversations every week with many of the world’s smartest young people. We now have more than 1,000 Emergent winners across the globe. Here are some of the lessons I have been learning:

4 weeks ago | exponentialview.co | Azeem Azhar |Tyler Cowen

I was in conversation with just earlier today (thanks to everyone who joined us live!). Headline growth will be modest, not miraculous. Tyler pushes back on predictions of a 10–25% relative boost to GDP growth, arguing that unavoidable frictions – energy supply, regulation, inertia – cap the AI dividend. Markets are pricing in *interesting but incremental*. Currency, equity and bond markets look normal; if AI were about to explode growth, we’d see it. Generations use LLMs very differently.