Woke Activism Is a Waste of Resources and Pushing for Bad Ends

Tyler Cowen is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and writer of the legendary blog Marginal Revolution alongside Alex Tabarrok. We discuss talent, Ontario, immigrants, institutional trust, power attractors, the Intellectual Dark Web, public health, the internet, generation Z, the significance of social change versus technology, upsides of wokeness, populism, imposter syndrome, self-deception, and corporate hiring.

Marginal Revolution

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Talent by Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross

https://www.amazon.ca/Talent-Identify-Energizers-Creatives-Winners/dp/1250275814

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From the New World Episode with Zvi Mowshowitz:

https://cactus.substack.com/p/zvi-mowshowitz-how-the-worst-people

From the New World Episode with Robin Hanson:

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