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.
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John McWhorter on Linguistics, Music, and Race (Live at Mason)
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Garett Jones on Democracy (More or Less)
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Tim Harford on Persuasion and Popular Economics
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Ezra Klein on Why We're Polarized
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Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests
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Slavoj Žižek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism
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Abhijit Banerjee on Theory, Practice, and India
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Tyler Looks Back on 2019 (BONUS)
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Esther Duflo on Management, Growth, and Research in Action
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Daron Acemoglu on the Struggle Between State and Society
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Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen on the Nature and Ca...
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Shaka Senghor on Incarceration, Identity, and the Gift of Literacy
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Lunch with Fuchsia Dunlop at Mama Chang (Bonus)
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Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage
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Henry Farrell on Weaponized Interdependence, Big Tech, and Playing with Ideas
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Ben Westhoff on Synthetic Drugs, Dive Bars, and the Evolution of Rap
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Alain Bertaud on Cities, Markets, and People
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Samantha Power on Learning How to Make a Difference
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Hollis Robbins on 19th Century Life and Literature
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M. Gessen on the Ins and Outs of Russia
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Kwame Anthony Appiah on Pictures of the World
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Neal Stephenson on Depictions of Reality
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Eric Kaufmann on Immigration, Identity, and the Limits of Individualism
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Hal Varian on Taking the Academic Approach to Business
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Russ Roberts on Life as an Economics Educator
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Ezekiel Emanuel on the Practice of Medicine, Policy, and Life
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Karl Ove Knausgård on Literary Freedom
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Margaret Atwood on Canada, Writing, and Invention (Live at Mason)
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Ed Boyden on Minding your Brain
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Emily Wilson on Translations and Language
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Raghuram Rajan on Understanding Community
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Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent
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Jordan Peterson on Mythology, Fame, and Reading People
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Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama on *Persecution and Toleration*
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Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
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Rebecca Kukla on Moving through and Responding to the World
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Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise
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Paul Romer on the Unrivaled Joy of Scholarship
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John Nye on Revisionist Economic History and Having Too Many Hobbies
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Eric Schmidt on the Life-Changing Magic of Systematizing, Scaling, and Saying "T...
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Ben Thompson on Business and Tech
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Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments*
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Paul Krugman on Politics, Inequality, and Following Your Curiosity
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Bruno Maçães on the Spirit of Adventure
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Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Cultures
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Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely
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Michael Pollan on the Science and Sublimity of Psychedelics
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Michelle Dawson on Autism and Atypicality
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Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything
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Juan Pablo Villarino on Travel and Trust
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