Tyler Cowen: The UK is still underestimated

Tyler Cowen , 61 , rhapsodises about the opportunities available to humanity.

He joined former prime minister Liz Truss ’s Growth Commission to counter a sense of fatalist inevitability” over economic stagnation.

Cowen was raised in Hillsdale , New Jersey , and was a chess prodigy.

Tyler Cowen believes that boosting economic growth should be the central goal of policy is correct.

Cowen also believes gloom about the world economy is overdone.

Rumours of the death of globalisation, he argues, have been much exaggerated.

He insists that the fundamentals of the UK economy are strong, especially in southern England .