
Tyler Cowen on Big Business, Socialism, Free Speech, and Stagnant Productivity Growth – #21
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Big Business and the Zeitgeist
Sally Kohn: Your latest book is an impassioned defense of corporations and their essential role in a balanced productive and progressive society. I feel that you're kind of rowing against the zeitgeist here because I seem to detect resurgent support for socialism perhaps driven by inequality and also resistance to the concentration of power in big tech. So I'm curious how you feel your book has been received and how it interacts with the current zeitgeist. She says she's not sure what impact my book will end up having but right now it's something people don't quite know what to do with.
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