In recent years, economists have acquired a reputation for pessimism – not least because there has been much to be pessimistic about. Tyler Cowen is an exception. The US economist, Stakhanovite blogger and cultural omnivore rhapsodises about the opportunities available to humanity.
Earlier this year he joined former prime minister Liz Truss’s Growth Commission, a group dedicated to countering “a sense of fatalist inevitability” over economic stagnation. Ahead of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement on 22 November, I spoke to Cowen, 61, about the UK’s prospects and those of the world.
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