 | Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World
July 9, 2009 Books Tyler Cowen |
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| The Obama Administration's Proposal for Financial Regulatory Reform
June 22, 2009 Policy Comments Garett Jones,
Houman B. Shadab,
Lawrence J. White,
Margaret Polski,
Todd Zywicki,
Tyler Cowen |
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| A Simple Theory of the Financial Crisis; or, Why Fischer Black Still Matters
June 10, 2009 Journal Articles Tyler Cowen |
| The key question about the current financial crisis is how so many investors could have mispriced risk in the same way and at the same time. This article looks at the work of Fischer Black for insight into this problem.
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 | Preparing for Pandemic Flu
April 30, 2009 Mercatus On Policy Tyler Cowen |
| Since 2006, Congress has allocated millions of dollars to preparations
for an influenza pandemic. While preparation for a pandemic has
improved somewhat, such preparation needs to occur in ways that are
politically sustainable and remain useful even if a pandemic does not
occur. First, Americans need to accept that we can’t “stop” a pandemic;
we can only lessen its effects. Second, we need to acknowledge in our
policies that the best response to such disasters is a decentralized
one.
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| The Micromagic of Microcredit
January 8, 2008 Journal Articles Karol Boudreaux,
Tyler Cowen |
| Can microcredit achieve the massive changes its proponents claim? Is it the solution to poverty in the developing world, or something more modest- a way to empower the poor, particularly poor women, with some control over their lives and their assets?
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| Are Disagreements Honest?
October 10, 2007 Working Papers Robin Hanson,
Tyler Cowen |
| We review literatures on agreeing to disagree and on the rationality of differing priors in order to evaluate the honesty of typical disagreements. A robust result is that honest truth-seeking agents with common priors should not knowingly disagree.
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 | Discover Your Inner Economist
May 30, 2007 Books Tyler Cowen |
| In Discover Your Inner Economist one of America’s most respected economists presents a quirky, incisive romp through everyday life that reveals how you can turn economic reasoning to your advantage—often when you least expect it to be relevant.
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| Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding
April 7, 2006 Books Tyler Cowen |
| In this book Tyler Cowern argues why the U.S. way of funding the arts, while largely indirect, results not in the terrible and the small but in Good and Plenty--and how it could result in even more and better.
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| Avian Flu: What We Need to Know
November 11, 2005 Working Papers Tyler Cowen |
| Tyler Cowen discusses what we should consider in the event of an avian flu pandemic.
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| Self-Deception as the Root of Political Failure
September 1, 2005 Journal Articles Tyler Cowen |
| This papers considers models of political failure based on self-deception. Individuals discard free information when that information damages their self-image and thus lowers their utility. More specifically, individuals prefer to feel good about their previously chosen affiliations and shape their worldviews accordingly. |
