Tyler Cowen, Columnist

Computing the Social Value of Uber. (It's High.)

Consumers gain $1.60 from each dollar spent on UberX. And that's just for starters.

September 8, 2016 at 1:00 PM UTC

Tyler Cowen is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of economics at George Mason University and host of the Marginal Revolution blog.

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