What an economist eats for lunch (in 2026), with Tyler Cowen

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  What does an economist eat for lunch?

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  Powdered food for efficiency?

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  Or maybe seasonal veg for the climate?

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  And how is economics relevant for what we eat?

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  My guest today has thought a lot about these questions and the answers that tell us about incentives,

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  globalization, and how the modern economy really works.

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  This is The Economics Show with Samaya Keynes.

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  I'm joined this week by Tyler Cowan,

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  who is speaking to me from Fairfax, Virginia in the suburbs of Washington DC.

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  Tyler is a professor of economics at George Mason University,

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  economics blogger and writer extraordinaire, and host of The Conversations with Tyler podcast.

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  Tyler, hello.

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  Hi, good to be chatting with you.

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  I've only had a yogurt for breakfast.

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  Let me warn you.

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  Okay, that's fine.

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  You're allowed to stay on the podcast.

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  Okay.

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  On this show, we always start with a question on a scale from 1 to 10.

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  So on a scale of 1 to 10, how important do you think food is to the average person?

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