Columns by Tyler Cowen
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2011
49. January 29th: Innovation Is Doing Little for Incomes
50. March 5th: It’s Time to Face the Fiscal Illusion
51. April 16th: Euro vs. Invasion of the Zombie Banks
52. May 28th: Can I See Your License, Registration and C.P.U.?
53. July 9th: Choices for Greece, All of Them Daunting
54. Oct 1st: The Problem With ‘No New Taxes’
2010
39. January 2nd: Fruitful Decade for Many in the World
40. February 6th: Why Politics is Stuck in the Middle
41. March 12th: Managed Care: Get Used to It
42. April 16th: Can't Cut Spending? Look Around the Globe
43. May 21st: How Will Greece Get Off the Dole?
44. July 17th: What Germany Knows About Debt
45. Aug 14th: Free Parking Comes at a Price
46. Sept 18th: Can the Fed Offer a Reason to Cheer?
47. Oct 30th: How Immigrants Create More Jobs
48. Dec 11th: Following the Money, Doctors Ration Care
2009
32. January 31st: Recession Can Change a Way of Life
33. March 1st: Message to Regulators: Bank Fix Needed Quickly
34. April 4th: Why Creditors Should Suffer Too
35. August 1st: How a Little Inflation Could Help a Lot
36. Sept 12th: Where Politics Don’t Belong
37. October 25th: How an Insurance Mandate Could Leave Many Worse Off
38. November 28th: Dangers of an Overheated China
2008
20. January 13th: So We Thought. But Then Again...
21. February 17th: It's an Election, Not a Revolution
22. March 23rd: It's Hard to Thaw a Frozen Market
23. April 27th: Freer Trade Could Fill the World's Rice Bowl
24. June 8th: This Global Show Must Go On
25. July 20th: Means Testing, for Medicare
26. August 23rd: Finding the Mess Behind the Mess
27. September 13th: Too Few Regulations? No, Just Ineffective Ones
28. October 17th: Three Trends and a Train Wreck
29. November 8th: The Mood Always Matters, So Restore Confidence First
30. November 21st: The New Deal Did Not Always Work, Either
31. December 26th: Bailout of Long-Term Capital: A Bad Precedent?
2007
11. January 25th: Incomes and Inequality: What the Numbers Don't Tell Us
12. March 22nd: Abolishing the Middlemen Won't Make Health Care a Free Lunch
13. April 19th: Matrimony Has Its Benefits, and Divorce Has a Lot To Do With That
14. May 17th: Why Is Income Inequality in America So Pronounced? Consider Education
15. June 14th: The Loose Reins on U.S. Teenagers Can Produce Trouble or Entrepreneurs
16. July 12th: A Way for Resource-Rich Countries to Audit Their Way out of Corruption
17. September 9th: It's Monetary Policy not a Morality Play
18. October 28th: To Know Contractors, Know Government
19. December 2nd: The Dollar is Falling, and That's Good News
2006
1. April 20th: Enter the Neuro-Economists: Why Do Investors Do What They Do?
2. May 18th: A Contrarian Look at Whether U.S. Chief Executives Are Overpaid
3. June 15th: Investing in Good Deeds Without Checking the Prospectus
4. July 13th: In the Language of Gastronomy, Those Michelin Stars Translate as Dollar Signs
5. August 10th: Microloans May Work, but There Is Dispute in India Over Who Will Make Them
6. September 7th: China Is Big Trouble for the U.S. Balance of Trade, Right? Well, Not So Fast
7. October 5th: Poor U.S. Scores in Health Care Don't Measure Nobels and Innovation
8. November 2nd: What Makes a Nation Wealthy? Maybe It's the Working Stiff
9. November 20th: The Immigration Answer? It's in Mexico's Classrooms
10. December 28th: Universal 401(k) Accounts Would Bring the Poor Into the Ownership Society
1. September 6th, 2005: A conversation regarding Barbara Ehrenreich's "Bait and Switch" -- Tyler Cowen to Alan Wolfe (Part One), Alan Wolfe to Tyler Cowen (Part Two), Tyler Cowen to Alan Wolfe (Part Three), Alan Wolfe to Tyler Cowen (Part Four),
2. March 2nd, 2006: Octavia Butler: The Outsider Who Changed Science Fiction.
3. April 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st, 2006: An Economist Visits New Orleans -- Part One, Part Two, Part Three (with Dan Rothschild), and Part Four.
4. May 15th, 2006: What Are Independent Bookstores Really Good For?
5. November 1st, 2006: Can You Really Save the Planet at the Dinner Table?
6. June 13th, 2007: Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition -- Or Do They? A Look at Nassim Taleb's The Black Swan