Лучшие книги Тайлера Коуэна

Для трех четвертей рабочих мест, созданных в США после начала рецессии, заработная плата едва превышает минимальную. При этом в США по-прежнему больше миллионеров и миллиардеров, чем в любой другой стране мира. В этой книге Тайлер Коуэн предлагает свое объяснение данного феномена: те, кто зарабатывает много, пользуются большими преимуществами искусственного интеллекта в анализе данных и достижении лучших результатов; те же, кто зарабатывает мало, не имеют опыта взаимодействия с большинством новых технологий и потому имеют очень плохие перспективы. Практически все сектора экономики все меньше зависят от ручного труда, и этот факт навсегда…

Где найти талантливых сотрудников? И как помочь каждому раскрыть потенциал? Известный экономист Тайлер Коуэн и предприниматель Дэниел Гросс изучили искусство и науку поиска людей, обладающих творческим потенциалом, энтузиазмом и проницательностью. Коуэн и Гросс знакомят читателя с основными областями научных исследований, имеющими отношение к поиску талантов. В том числе с тем, как проводить собеседование, насколько важен интеллект, как оценивать личность и сопоставлять личностные качества с работой, как оценивать талант в онлайн-взаимодействиях, таких как Zoom-звонки, почему талантливых женщин по-прежнему недооценивают и как их…

Tyler Cowen’s The Great Stagnation, the eSpecial heard round the world that ignited a firestorm of debate and redefined the nature of our economic malaise, is now-at last-a book.

America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, media wages have been flat since the 1970s, and it is common to expect that things will get worse before they get better.

Does a market economy encourage or discourage music, literature, and the visual arts? Do economic forces of supply and demand help or harm the pursuit of creativity? This book seeks to redress the current intellectual and popular balance and to encourage a more favorable attitude toward the commercialization of culture that we associate with modernity. Economist Tyler Cowen argues that the capitalist market economy is a vital but underappreciated institutional framework for supporting a plurality of co-existing artistic visions, providing a steady stream of new and satisfying creations, supporting both high and low culture, helping consumers and artists refine their tastes, and paying homage to the past by capturing, reproducing, and disseminating it. Contemporary culture, Cowen argues, is flourishing in its various manifestations, including the visual arts, literature, music, architecture, and the cinema.

Successful high culture usually comes out of a healthy and prosperous popular culture. Shakespeare and Mozart were highly popular in their own time. Beethoven's later, less accessible music was made possible in part by his early popularity. Today, consumer demand ensures that archival blues recordings, a wide array of past and current symphonies, and this week's Top 40 hit sit side by side in the music megastore. High and low culture indeed complement each other.

Cowen's philosophy of cultural optimism stands in opposition to the many varieties of cultural pessimism found among conservatives, neo-conservatives, the Frankfurt School, and some versions of the political correctness and multiculturalist movements, as well as historical figures, including Rousseau and Plato. He shows that even when contemporary culture is thriving, it appears degenerate, as evidenced by the widespread acceptance of pessimism. He ends by considering the reasons why cultural pessimism has such a powerful hold on intellectuals and opinion-makers.

Assertions of market failure are usually based on Paul Samuelson's theory of public goods and externalities. This book both develops that theory and challenges the conclusion of many economists and policy-makers that market failures cannot be corrected by market forces. The volume includes major case studies of private provision of public goods. Among the goods considered are lighthouse services, education, municipal services, and environmental conservation.