![]() Plus, there's no evidence that these recordings were of conversations to which Cohen was not himself a participant.Īs long as he was a participant on the call or present for the conversation, New York's criminal eavesdropping statute does not apply to him. First, New York is a "one-party" consent state: As long as one party to the conversation (in this case, Cohen) consents to the recording, the recording is lawful. There's no evidence so far that Cohen violated New York's eavesdropping laws if he only possessed recordings of phone calls or conversations. ![]() "Mechanical overhearing of a conversation" is slightly different: It is the intentional, nonconsensual recording of any conversation by a person not present at the conversation, by means of any device. Or books.Wiretapping is the use of a device to intentionally, and without consent, record a telephonic communication, by a person other than a participant. He describes people with autism as 'infovores' who are attracted to information-the minutiae of train schedules. (Cowen never sought a professional diagnosis.). (The reader in question was Kathleen Fasanella, a pattern maker and consultant who has Asperger syndrome.) "Offended at first, he applied himself to understanding the term, then decided he has what he calls an 'autistic cognitive style,' then wrote a book about it, Create Your Own Economy. "In 2004 a reader of his blog suggested to him in an e-mail that he might be autistic," writes Greeley. He admits he might be on the autism spectrum. He got class-stoppers out of Bartleby, the Scrivener and Edgar Allan Poe." "Cowen got laughs," he reports, "and not tentative chuckles either. Greeley sat in on a literature and law seminar that Cowen teaches at George Mason University. By 16 he had reached a chess rating of 2350, which today would put him close to the top 100 in the U.S." "When Tyler Cowen was 15, he became the New Jersey Open Chess Champion, at the time the youngest ever. Several people have told me the same story about Cowen: They have watched him read, and he scans a page as others might scan a headline." ![]() He rereads what you probably haven't heard of, like Anton Chekhov's Sakhalin Island. "Tyler Cowen has read what's listed in Harold Bloom's The Western Canon, though not, he concedes, every single last one of the Icelandic sagas. "He takes up books with great hope and no mercy, and when he is done-sometimes after five minutes-he abandons them in public, an act he calls a 'liberation.'"īut he still reads more than you. Some people start a book and feel obligated to finish it not so for Cowen. Among other things, we learn:Ĭowen bails out of books early and often. In Greeley's profile, we get a glimpse of how a mind like that fuels itself. James Joyner, who blogs at Outside the Beltway, calls Cowen's output "mindboggling." Cowen is a voracious reader (as Atlantic Wire regulars may already know), and a prolific writer-Greeley notes that he's "published 15 books and over 60 academic articles," including a recent e-book, The Great Stagnation. The profile, by Brendan Greeley, does a nice job of showing us Cowen's human side. In the latest Bloomberg Businessweek, there's a profile of Tyler Cowen, the economist, professor, food writer, and all-around polymath who blogs at Marginal Revolution. ![]() This article is from the archive of our partner.
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