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#413: Tyler Cowen on Rationality, COVID-19, Talismans, and Life on the Margins

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Published March 05, 2020 5:21pm

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"If you need to measure, you've failed." — Tyler Cowen

Professor Tyler Cowen (@tylercowen) has a personal moonshot: to teach economics to more people than anyone else in the history of the world—and he might just succeed. In addition to his regular teaching at George Mason University, Tyler has blogged every day at Marginal Revolution for almost 17 years, helping to make it one of the most widely read economics blogs in the world.

Tyler cocreated Marg...

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