Discover Your Inner Economist

why [do] so many people need new novelists and whatever’s on the bestseller lists now when there are so many other great novels written 10, 100 years ago?

We’re, again, programmed to this newness for this economic reason, which is social ties, talking about it with other people, trying to signal we’re hip or ahead of the game, and we want to carve out our own space and the old has already been colonized, whether it’s a book, a movie, music.

Interview with Tyler Cowen


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