Tyler Cowen

BLOOMBERG OPINION COLUMNIST; PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY AND WRITES FOR THE BLOG MARGINAL REVOLUTION. HIS BOOKS INCLUDE “THE COMPLACENT CLASS: THE SELF-DEFEATING QUEST FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM” @TYLERCOWEN

Sales of Novo Nordisk’s obesity drugs are about to surpass what the company spent on R&D over the last 30 years.

Is the price of Ozempic really so outrageous?

The limited number of core economic principles, such as supply and demand, make it relatively easy to derive their major implications.

Exciting economics is often misguided economics

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and his working group on AI issued a guidance document for federal policy that suggests the federal government is more interested in accelerating AI than hindering it.
THE BOTTOM LINE

The AI safety movement is dead

Ozempic, made by Novo Nordisk, is a huge boon to the Danish economy.

Ozempic is transforming the health of Denmark’s economy

The most favourable scenario for Bidenomics is that US investments lead to cheaper green energy sources.

Has Bidenomics worked? It’s too soon to say

Sora is yet more evidence that, in AI, progress in images is proceeding more rapidly than progress in text.
THE BROAD VIEW

What’s the future of advertising? Ask Sora

By one estimate, publicly traded US firms accounted for 44.9 per cent of global market capitalisation last year.
THE BOTTOM LINE

Stock markets are driving a new American century

In certain places, land will become much more valuable, as companies choose to locate near AI centres to access the labour markets for AI researchers, or to learn about AI from the industry’s leading actors
COMMENTARY

Struggling cities facing more pain from AI boom

The global economy is less vulnerable to energy price shocks now than it used to be, and this trend will only continue with the rise of cheaper solar and wind power.  Thus, another systematic force on the world economy – the price of fossil fuels – has been weakened.
THE BOTTOM LINE

The rate of global economic growth is meaningless

Nations that develop or tolerate AI-generated innovations could become more important exporters.

How AI will remake the rules of international trade