{"id":583,"date":"2004-10-23T08:23:40","date_gmt":"2004-10-23T13:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=583"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:24","slug":"tyler_cowens_fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/23\/tyler_cowens_fa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Cowen&#8217;s Favorite Indian Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several of the Mutineers are fans of Tyler Cowen over @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/\">Marginal Revolution<\/a>.   The authors of Marginal Revolution are ostensibly Libertarians but have enough intellectual honesty, spark, and insight to draw a broad audience across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n\n<p>Tyler is perhaps best known for applying the lessons of economics to the global culture industry and has published multiple books on the subject (my reviews are <a href=\"http:\/\/vinod.com\/blog\/Books\/CreativeDestruction.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/vinod.com\/blog\/Books\/InPraiseofCommercialCultu.html\">here<\/a>.)   In a nutshell, Tyler argues that far from the bland Disney-fied vision of corporatized culture pushed forth by anti-globolists of all stripes, Economics and Culture are actually rather natural allies and responsible for far more cultural creation than homogenization.<\/p>\n\n<p>Today, Tyler posts on <a title=\"Marginal Revolution: My favorite things Indian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2004\/10\/my_favorite_thi.html\">Marginal Revolution: My favorite things Indian<\/a> and it appears the man is rather erudite on the Desi diaspora &#8211;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>My favorite things Indian\n\nBeing here is number one at the moment, but here are a few specifics:\n\n1. My favorite Indian musician &#8211; I have to go with Zakir Hussain; yes the CDs are wonderful but they do not compare with seeing him live. Honorary mentions go to Ali Akhbar Khan (sarod) and L. Subramaniam (violin).\n\n&#8230;3. My favorite Indian novel &#8211; Rushdie is the obvious favorite, but I will opt for Vikram Seth&#8217;s A Suitable Boy. Better than any Dickens but Bleak House. And did you know that he was an errant economics Ph.d. student at Stanford when he wrote the manuscript?\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of the Mutineers are fans of Tyler Cowen over @ Marginal Revolution. The authors of Marginal Revolution are ostensibly Libertarians but have enough intellectual honesty, spark, and insight to draw a broad audience across the political spectrum. Tyler is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/23\/tyler_cowens_fa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}