Two things are indisputably true of Tyler Cowen: he has an interesting mind, and he has an economist’s mind. This struck me as I was reading Chapter 4 of Create Your Own Economy, titled ‘IM, Cell Phones, and Facebook’. It’s a quirky (and occasionally funny) chapter about how our choice of communication platform impacts our …
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Tyler Cowen on cultural literacy
I’m reading Tyler Cowen’s book Create Your Own Economy and I’ll be posting thoughts and snippets as I go. Here’s Cowen on the new cultural literacy: What cultural literacy means today is not whether you can “read” all the symbols in a Rubens painting but whether you can operate an iPhone and other web-related technologies. …
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