My filter here is that Cowen isn’t trying to be serious based on his past communications and outright dismissal of certain positions. If you take 10 random economists, I’d expect that maybe 9⁄10 or so would be happy to properly engage on hypothetical scenarios.
It’s also a simple issue of sampling from the most extreme end of a distribution (extremely opinionated + high visibility) rather than from the distribution itself.
My filter here is that Cowen isn’t trying to be serious based on his past communications and outright dismissal of certain positions. If you take 10 random economists, I’d expect that maybe 9⁄10 or so would be happy to properly engage on hypothetical scenarios.
It’s also a simple issue of sampling from the most extreme end of a distribution (extremely opinionated + high visibility) rather than from the distribution itself.
Seems plausible but my baseline expectation of most academics of any sort would be similarly dismissive.