Conversations with Tyler
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Tyler Cowen engages today's deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world, and everything in between. New conversations every other Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Notable Guests
Episodes (299)
Jennifer Pahlka on Reforming Government
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Sheilagh Ogilvie on Epidemics, Guilds, and the Persistence of Bad Institutions
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Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda
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Carl Zimmer on the Hidden Life in the Air We Breathe
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Gregory Clark on Social Mobility, Migration, and Assortative Mating (Live at Mer...
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Ross Douthat on Why Religion Makes More Sense Than You Think
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Joe Boyd on the Birth of Rock, World Music, and Being There for Everything
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Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema
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Conversations with Tyler 2024 Retrospective
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Paula Byrne on Thomas Hardy's Women, Jane Austen's Humor, and Evelyn Waugh's War...
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Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography
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Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate
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Neal Stephenson on History, Spycraft, and American-Soviet Parallels
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Christopher Kirchhoff on Military Innovation and the Future of War
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Musa al-Gharbi on Elite Wokeness, Islam, and Social Movements
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Tom Tugendhat on Modernizing the UK and Political Reform
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Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media
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Tobi Lütke on Creating Shopify for Americans as a German in Canada
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Philip Ball on the Interplay of Science, Society, and the Quest for Understandin...
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Nate Silver on Risk-takers, Politicians, and Poker Players
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Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgus...
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Alan Taylor on Revolutionary Ironies and the Continental Civil War
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Brian Winter on Brazil, Argentina, and the Future of Latin America
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Joseph Stiglitz on Pioneering Economic Theories, Policy Challenges, and His Inte...
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Velina Tchakarova on China, Russia, and the Future of Geopolitics
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Michael Nielsen on Collaboration, Quantum Computing, and Civilization's Fragilit...
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Benjamin Moser on the Dutch Masters, Brazil, and Cultural Icons
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Coleman Hughes on Colorblindness, Jazz, and Identity
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Peter Thiel on Political Theology
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Jonathan Haidt on Adjusting to Smartphones and Social Media
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Fareed Zakaria on the Age of Revolutions, the Power of Ideas, and the Rewards of...
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Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion i...
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Marc Andreessen on AI and Dynamism
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Marc Rowan on Financial Market Evolution and University Governance
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Masaaki Suzuki on Interpreting Bach
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Ami Vitale on Photojournalism and Wildlife Conservation
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Rebecca F. Kuang on National Literatures, Book Publishing, and History in Fictio...
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Patrick McKenzie on Navigating Complex Systems
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Conversations with Tyler 2023 Retrospective
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Fuchsia Dunlop on the Story of Chinese Food
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John Gray on Pessimism, Liberalism, and Theism
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Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand
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Brian Koppelman on TV, Movies, and Appreciating Art
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Githae Githinji on Life in Kenya
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Harriet Karimi Muriithi on Life in Kenya
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Stephen Jennings on Building New Cities
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Jacob Mikanowski on Eastern Europe
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Re-release: Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality
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Ada Palmer on Viking Metaphysics, Contingent Moments, and Censorship
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Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential
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