Create your own economy
Create your own economy by Tyler Cowen is a 2009 Business & Economics book written by TED speaker Tyler Cowen, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "Be suspicious of simple stories" (2012), 590K views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 3 years before the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 3rd of 4 books by Tyler Cowen on Books Worth Reading (2005–2019), by publication year.
- Edition: Dutton, 2009
The paired TED talk
Be suspicious of simple stories (2012), the TED talk by Tyler Cowen.
From the publisher
One of the most respected behavioral economists in the world and coauthor of the "best economics blog in the universe"* offers an essential guide to success in a radically new hyper-networked age. How will we live well in a super-networked, information-soaked, yet predictably irrational world? The only way to know is to understand how the way we think is changing.As economist Tyler Cowen boldly shows in Create Your Own Economy, the way we think now is changing more rapidly than it has in a very long time. Not since the Industrial Revolution has a man-made creation—in this case, the World Wide Web—so greatly influenced the way our minds work and our human potential. Cowen argues brilliantly that we are breaking down cultural information into ever-smaller tidbits, ordering and reordering them in our minds (and our computers) to meet our own specific needs. Create Your Own Economy explains why the coming world of Web 3.0 is good for us;...