Trend Following With Michael Covel

My guest today is Tyler Cowen, an American economist, columnist and blogger. He is a professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in the economics department. He hosts the economics blog Marginal Revolution, together with co-author Alex Tabarrok. The topic is economics. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Sabermetrics and the new idea that we will be judged by numbers Cowen's early experience studying under Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling The notion of thinking in terms of paradoxes Why we're moving from the 1% to the 15% "Average is over" and why Singapore and Israel are the two places in the world where this has come true first Problems because of "average is over" in Singapore Pure free markets Thinking about why past regulations have failed How computers change us Globalization, where things are headed, and what we should be prepared for Zero marginal product workers Jump in! --- I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud