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Tyler Cowen: belief

1 Sept 2022 Conversations with Tyler Shruti Rajagopalan talks to Daniel Gross and Tyler about Identifying and Predicting Talent

“I think of myself as wealthier than them in human capital terms for the most part, so I’m pretty selfish.”

— Tyler Cowen

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Speaker
Tyler Cowen
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
1 Sept 2022
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…Yes. Second, it is a source of social capital, which is very valuable. I’m not paid, at the margin, to do it, but I learn, really, an incredible amount. And I get some sense of where the world is going, and that, to me, is exciting. I feel I have a higher living standard than just about anyone I know, and I know a lot of people with very high net wealth. I don’t really think of them as richer than I am in terms of time usage, memories. I have art, music, consumption of desserts, whatever. I think of myself as wealthier than them in human capital terms for the most part, so I’m pretty selfish. All right. That’s good.…

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