“Does Technology Drive the Growth of Government?” is one of my favorite Tyler Cowen papers. It’s on my graduate Public Choice syllabus. Unfortunately, it has strangely disappeared from the Internet – and Tyler himself can’t easily locate the paper. If you have an electronic copy, please email it to me.
I’ll reciprocate by blogging the highlights.
READER COMMENTS
DK
Apr 27 2012 at 1:23am
The PDF is here and it’s readable: http://www.doc88.com/p-93241515532.html
Someone who reads Chinese should be able to figure out how to download the file.
david
Apr 27 2012 at 7:49am
You can’t download it easily, its instructions say you need ‘points’ to download the file, and you probably need to pay to buy points.
cornflour
Apr 27 2012 at 8:52am
The paper is from the 2009 meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, held in Stockholm.
The Instituto Liberdade (Puerto Alegre, Brazil) put copies of the meeting’s papers online. Since the Instituto’s link to these papers no longer works, and no one seems to have formally published the papers, you should probably contact the Instituto.
Their website is bilingual, so I’d guess they’d understand English. Their contact information is at http://www.il-rs.org.br/ingles/info/forms/contact.php
Raymond T. Walter
Apr 27 2012 at 10:41am
Bryan should have the paper in his inbox now.
James Oswald
Apr 27 2012 at 1:52pm
I love the internet. I realize that this isn’t an obscure paper, but the speed with which things can be found and data losses can be repaired is quite impressive.
Lars P
Apr 27 2012 at 2:11pm
It’s good to know about the Wayback Machine.
If you know the URL it used to be on, and when, they probably have it.
Zac Gochenour
Apr 27 2012 at 11:41pm
Wayback Machine didn’t have it, but the paper has been acquired. Thanks to everyone who looked.
Jeremy H.
Apr 29 2012 at 4:22pm
I was just rewatching “Free to Choose” last week. Friedman makes a comment which reminded me of this Cowen paper.
source: http://www.freetochoose.net/media/broadcast/freetochoose/detail_ftc1980_transcript.php?page=10
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