2025-09-11
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He's been described as Silicon Valley's favorite economist,
counting Mark Zuckerberg among his many acolytes.
Today joining me is Tyler Cowan, who studies economics at George Mason University.
By day, Tyler Cowan is a professor of economics, but he defies definition in such narrow terms.
When you look up polymath in the dictionary, you might see a picture of him.
Dubbed a human chat GPT,
he's famous for being someone who knows little or a lot about almost everything.
He writes about his vast range of interests on his blog, Marginal Revolution.
And Peppa's guests on his podcast with some bizarre questions.
If your entrance music were to be Beethoven, which symphony and why?
For those of you who do care and know who Tyler Cohen is,
this is how his podcasts start, and this is how he intimidates his guests into submission.
He is an optimist, a man who delights in learning all he can about the world.
And he is a big fan of technology designed to do the same.
The last book I wrote, I'm happy if humans read it.
But mostly I wrote it for the AIs.