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My guest today is Tyler Cowen, an American economist, columnist and blogger. He is a professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in the economics department. He hosts the economics blog Marginal Revolution, together with co-author Alex Tabarrok.

The topic is economics.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Sabermetrics and the new idea that we will be judged by numbers
• Cowen\u2019s early experience studying under Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling
• The notion of thinking in terms of paradoxes
• Why we\u2019re moving from the 1% to the 15%
• \u201cAverage is over\u201d and why Singapore and Israel are the two places in the world where this has come true first
• Problems because of \u201caverage is over\u201d in Singapore
• Pure free markets
• Thinking about why past regulations have failed
• How computers change us
• Globalization, where things are headed, and what we should be prepared for
• Zero marginal product workers

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