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Interview with economist Tyler Cowen on Weaponized Interdependence, Big Tech, and Playing with Ideas

October 23, 2019
Keywords: Big Tech, Conversations with Tyler podcast, featured, Tyler Cowen, Weaponized Interdependence

Whether it’s China’s influence over the NBA, the US ban of Huawei, or the EU courts asserting that countries can force Facebook to take down content globally, Henry Farrell has played a key role articulating how global economic networks can enable state coercion.

Tyler and Henry discuss these issues and more, including what a big tech breakup would mean for security and privacy, why political economics suggests Facebook’s Oversight Board won’t work, what Italy might reveal about China’s feature, his family connection to Joyce, his undying affection for My Bloody Valentine, why Philip K. Dick would have reveled in QAnon, why Twitter seems left-wing, and being a first generation academic blogger.

Henry Farrell on Weaponized Interdependence, Big Tech, and Playing with Ideas (Ep. 78, Conversations with Tyler podcast)

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Interview with economist Tyler Cowen on Weaponized Interdependence, Big Tech, and Playing with Ideas

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