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23 paź 2023 · *GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time, and Why Does it Matter?* I am pleased to announce and present my new project, available here, free of charge. It is derived from a 100,000 word manuscript, entirely written by me, and is well described by the title of this blog post.
Inspired by Bill Simmons' epic The Book of Basketball, Tyler Cowen translates a lifelong passion for economics into an entertaining and erudite analysis of who qualifies as the greatest economist of all time.
25 gru 2023 · From Adam Smith to Milton Friedman, Tyler Cowen breaks down his evidence and reasoning for who should be considered the greatest economist of all time. Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University, and is the co-author of the popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution.
Spoiler alert: Cowen doesn’t actually pick a single GOAT. Instead, he picks three who are the greatest in some ways: Friedman, Mill, and Smith. My reading—based on what he says about each, and his criteria listed above—is that Friedman is most deserving of Cowen’s crown. But he wrote the book, not me.
2 kwi 2024 · Competition is good, right? Buchanan looks at who the top contenders are in the battle to discover the great economist of all time (GOAT) using Tyler Cowen's book with generative AI.
1 sty 2023 · Through vivid storytelling, Cowen examines the lives of history’s most influential economic thinkers, from the passionate idealism of a young John Stuart Mill to the analytical brilliance of Milton Friedman.
27 lis 2023 · Listen as Cowen talks about his new and freely accessible book GOAT with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. Along the way to crowning a winner, Cowen offers original insights into what shaped the theories and worldviews of the greatest economists of all time.
