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Tyler Cowen on Inequality, the Future, and Average is Over
Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and blogger at Marginal Revolution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, Average is Over. Cowen takes a provocative look at how the growing power of artificial intelligence embodied in machines and technologies might change labor markets and the standard of living. He tries to predict which people and which skills will be complementary to smart machines and which people and which skills will struggle. Listen: Tyler Cowen on Inequality, the Future, and Average is Over
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Economist Tyler Cowen On The End Of Average
US inequality is hitting record highs again, we learned last week. Higher than Gatsby levels. The USA pins the needle for inequality globally. Higher than China. Higher than India. Americans have generally been unruffled by that, but then the 20th Century brought our greatest time of equality. In this century, says my guest economist Tyler Cowen, inequality will explode in the US. You’ll be rich or you’ll be Mexico-style poor. He’s OK with that. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joe Stiglitz is not. They’re both with us. Up next On Point: equality and inequality in America. Listen: Economist Tyler Cowen On The End Of Average
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