Author Archive | Tyler Cowen

Not a joke, read here. The bottom line?: “As of Wednesday, officials in the county of 79,000 people will begin telling couples applying for licenses to go elsewhere until the gay marriage debate is settled. “It may seem odd,” Benton County Commissioner Linda Modrell told Reuters in a telephone interview, but “we need to treat […]

See my post from yesterday. Ernest Miller writes: “Educated Guesswork has an insightful response to the ongoing Grey Album controversy (Infringing mixes). The proposal is that rather than distribute the fully remixed version of the Beatle’s White Album with Jay-Z’s Black Album, one could distribute the mechanical instructions for remixing the albums: a remix recipe […]

“The number of gays dismissed from the military under the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy has dropped to its lowest level in nine years as U.S. forces fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a report by an advocacy group. The military discharged 787 gay men and lesbians last year, according to the Servicemembers […]

Surely you know the Beatles’s White Album, and rapper Jay-Z did the Black Album. One enterprising producer (Brian Burton) mixed the two together, using creative sampling techniques. He came up with The Grey Album, which drew legal opposition from The Beatles. Imagine rap beats, riffs and lyrics with White Album instrumentals and vocal snippets in […]

“Publishing a book has always been a risky prospect, with success all too often dictated by events beyond an author’s or publisher’s control: a glowing review, selection by a book club, an invitation to appear on radio or television. But there’s another path to literary success, at least for a lucky few: litigation. Paradoxically, a […]

Who better to write on this topic than Daniel Drezner? Try Brink Lindsay as well.

Here is an excellent profile of one of the world’s leading singers. I hadn’t known she got her start singing Gershwin to American serviceman after the war. If you don’t know her incandescent recordings of Brahms, Schubert, Mahler and others, go buy some. Here is a link to a fan site about her.

This is excellent, and humorous to boot. Thanks to Newmark’s Door, a good economics blog, for the pointer.

I am very pleased that Liberty Fund will be running a symposium on my books on commerce and culture, I must leave for the plane shortly. We are staying in La Posada, a lovely resort in downtown Santa Fe. Deirdre McCloskey, Don Boudreaux, and blogger and New York Times columnist Virginia Postrel also will be […]

Here is the link. Eugene is number six, check also for yours truly at #32. What is the measure?: “This list is generated by counting unique references to articles and posts authored in the last 60 days.”

The film is opening in Syria and Lebanon on March 17. In Lebanon the initial run of three prints has been extended to twelve, following an unprecedented show of interest. Some observers are predicting that attendance will break all previous records in the country. Some closed-down moviehouses are looking to reopen to show the picture. […]

If you call the lender E-Loan Inc., you can have your loan application processed by either U.S. or Indian workers. If you choose the U.S. workers, it takes about two days longer to hear a response. Roughly 86% of applicants opt for the Indians.

Here is a short essay I wrote on economics blogging for The Freeman. It offers a general introduction to what blogging is all about. The print version (but not the on-line version) offers a box which surveys some of my favorite economics blogs, including Lynne Kiesling, Arnold Kling, and others, also see the blog roll […]

Is it possible for Kuwait to assign to a third party an award made to Kuwait by the United Nations Compensation Commission? I am talking about Iraqi reparations here. We know that Iraqi debtors are under pressure to forgive, how does this apply legally to those who hold reparations claims, namely Kuwait? As I understand […]

I enjoyed this film very much. Don’t worry if you are not a Louis Kahn fan. Kahn’s son made a chronicle of his attempts to know his deceased dad by tracking down his buildings and the people who knew him. It turns out that Kahn cultivated multiple families in secret and trusted only his work, […]