Steve Paikin produced, for TVO – Government of Ontario TV – a superb, wide-ranging interview of GMU economist Tyler Cowen that anyone can watch, for free, on a home computer. Tyler talks about US politics, the economy, and restaurant food. I give the interview two thumbs up. This is TV worth watching, without commercials, without interruption.
We’ve picked the low-hanging fruit, and that is slowing down our economic growth. Author Tyler Cowen calls it “The Great Stagnation”. He tells Steve Paikin what, if anything, can be done to turn it around.
“Tyler Cowen: The Great Stagnation“, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO, 25 September 2012.
The full length is 25 minutes. Kudos to the interviewer, and the interviewee.
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What a great interview – the quality was as much about the interviewer as interviewee.
Steve Paikin actually wanted to know what Cowen thought; he responded intelligently to Cowen’s comments (it wasn’t a pre-prepared set of questions) but, most of all, he wasn’t trying to ram his agenda down the guest’s throat. At the end of the interview, I didn’t really know whether he agreed with Tyler Cowen or not but I had a very good sense of what Tyler Cowan thinks.
Thanks for the pointer.