At the end of the worst road on the impoverished Honduran island of Roatán lies Próspera, an aspiring libertarian city-state “designed for entrepreneurs to build better”. Last January Tyler Cowen, an ...

Can the United States come up with an immigration policy that will prove sustainable? Two writers whom I respect and take ...

A viral claim that $140K is the "real poverty line" has sparked debate over what it takes to be middle class in 2025.

Economist Tyler Cowen is warning that colleges aren't preparing students for an AI world. Last month, Cowen warned students may feel they "don't fit" in an AI-shaped job market. He told BI that a ...

At first glance, the policy sounds absurd, especially to many Americans: In Sweden, grandparents are now eligible for government subsidies to babysit their grandchildren. As a proud grandparent, I ...

In the uncertain post-pandemic days, there were few sights that announced New York City’s rise from the ashes quite like a stroll down the block of West 32 nd Street known as K-Town. At one point, ...

"A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste," writes Tyler Cowen in the May 2012 Atlantic, "it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures." As an economist who studies ...

Economists, long snarked as practitioners of the dismal science, unsurprisingly tend to scoff at Silicon Valley predictions of artificial intelligence generating warp-speed economic growth—10 percent ...

Would inflating the currency boost spending and help to revive the economy? In the past week, economists and econobloggers have been debating this idea. Increasing the money supply might act as a ...

Last January Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University in Virginia, found himself being ushered into an open-air co-working space beneath the attractive tropical chalet that serves as the ...