Cowen on Culture, Autism, and Creating Your Own Economy

Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and author of Create Your Own Economy talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his recent book. The conversation ranges across a wide array of topics related to information, the arts, and the culture of the internet. Topics include how autistics perceive information and what non-autistics can learn from them, what Buddhism might teach us about our digital lives, the pace of change in the use of technology, Nozick's experience machine and the relative importance of authenticity and what the Alchian and Allen theorem has to do with the internet and culture.

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Cowen on Culture, Autism, and Creating Your Own Economy is an episode from EconTalk Archives, 2009 by Library of Economics and Liberty.

This episode is 56:48 long.

This episode was published on Sep 7, 2009.

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