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Conversations with Tyler

Mercatus Center at George Mason University

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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.

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Episodes (299)

Conversations with Tyler 2021 Retrospective

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Ray Dalio on Investing, Management, and the Changing World Order

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Ruth Scurr on the Art of Biography

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David Rubenstein on Private Equity, Public Art, and Philanthropy

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David Salle on the Experience of Art

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Stanley McChrystal on the Military, Leadership, and Risk

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Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality

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Amia Srinivasan on Utopian Feminism

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David Cutler and Ed Glaeser on the Health and Wealth of Cities

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Zeynep Tufekci on the Sociology of The Moment (Live)

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Andrew Sullivan on Braving New Intellectual Journeys

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Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History

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Alexander the Grate on Life as an NFA

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Richard Prum on Birds, Beauty, and Finding Your Own Way

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Elijah Millgram on the Philosophical Life

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David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them

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Mark Carney on Central Banking and Shared Values

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Pierpaolo Barbieri on Latin American FinTech

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Daniel Carpenter on Smart Regulation

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Shadi Bartsch on the Classics and China

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Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire

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Sarah Parcak on Archaeology from Space

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John Cochrane on Economic Puzzles and Habits of Mind

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Patricia Fara on Newton, Scientific Progress, and the Benefits of Unhistoric Act...

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Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy

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Benjamin Friedman on the Origins of Economic Belief

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Noubar Afeyan on the Permission to Leap

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Conversations with Tyler 2020 Retrospective

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John O. Brennan on Life in the CIA

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Zach Carter on the Life and Legacy of John Maynard Keynes

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Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives

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Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Art and Literature

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Michael Kremer on Economists as Founders

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Audrey Tang on the Technology of Democracy

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Alex Ross on Music, Culture, and Criticism

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Matt Yglesias on Why the Population is Too Damn Low

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Jason Furman on Productivity, Competition, and Growth

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Nicholas Bloom on Management, Productivity, and Scientific Progress

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Nathan Nunn on the Paths to Development

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Melissa Dell on the Significance of Persistence

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Annie Duke on Poker, Probabilities, and How We Make Decisions

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Rachel Harmon on Policing

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Ashley Mears on Status and Beauty

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Paul Romer on a Culture of Science and Working Hard

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Adam Tooze on our Financial Past and Future

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Glen Weyl on Fighting COVID-19 and the Role of the Academic Expert

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Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox

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Emily St. John Mandel on Fact, Fiction, and the Familiar

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Ross Douthat on Decadence and Dynamism

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Russ Roberts and Tyler on COVID-19

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