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    Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World
    Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World
    Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World
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    Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World

    Written by Tyler Cowen

    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

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    About this audiobook

    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; why social networking sites such as Facebook are so necessary; what's so great about "Tweeting" and texting; how education will get better; and why politics, literature, and philosophy will become richer. This is a revolutionary guide to life in the new world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 17, 2009
    ISBN9781400182190
    Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World
    Author

    Tyler Cowen

    Tyler Cowen (Ph.D.) holds the Holbert C. Harris chair in economics at George Mason University. He is the author of Discover Your Inner Economist (2007), Create Your Own Economy (2009), the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation (2011), An Economist Get Lunch (2012), Average is Over (2013), and a number of academic books. He writes the most read economics blog worldwide, marginalrevolution.com. He has written regularly for The New York Times and contributes to a wide number of newspapers and periodicals.

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    • 2/5
      I was really disappointed in this one. I've been reading Tyler Cowen's brilliant blog Marginal Revolution for years now and was well pleased when I got this book for my birthday. As it turned out I put it down after 6-7 chapters. It's just too fascinated with autism and autists. It's not that I don't find autism interesting, but it was not what I wanted and not what I thought I was getting from a book thus entitled.
    • 3/5
      Cowen examines modern society in light of economic thinking and the cognitive traits of autism. The economy referred to in the title is your own inner economy of value: the way you process the overwhelming amount of input in the world.The book is nowhere near as well focused as his last one, Discover Your Inner Economist. The actual discussion of creating your own economy frequently submerges for discussion of the traits of autism, often in a very speculative mode that makes me wish he’d taken the time to do some research (or at least suggested an explicit direction of study for someone to undertake) rather than vaguely wondering at length— for example, in the chapter titled Autistic Politics, he does not make a single reference to a political opinion or insight from any actual autistic person. The early parts of the book, where he has concrete examples and counterarguments for the ”Google is making us stupid” hypothesis, are the best section.