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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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- Vaughn Smith on Life as a Hyperpolyglot
- Shruti Rajagopalan talks to Daniel Gross and Tyler about Identifying and Predicting Talent
- Cynthia Haven on René Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky
- William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation
- Leopoldo López on Activism Under Autocratic Regimes
- Matthew Ball on the Metaverse and Gaming
- Barkha Dutt on the Nuances of Indian Life
- Marc Andreessen on Learning to Love the Humanities
- Jamal Greene on Reconceiving Rights
- Tyler and Daniel Gross Talk Talent
- Chris Blattman on War and Centralized Power
- Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality
- Roy Foster on Ireland’s Many Unmade Futures
- Lydia Davis on Language and Literature
- Sam Bankman-Fried on Arbitrage and Altruism
- Chuck Klosterman on Writing the Past and Relishing the Present
- Sebastian Mallaby on Venture Capital
- Stewart Brand on Starting Things and Staying Curious
- Russ Roberts on Israel and Life as an Immigrant
- Ana Vidović on Prodigies, Performance, and Perseverance
- Conversations with Tyler 2021 Retrospective
- Ray Dalio on Investing, Management, and the Changing World Order
- Ruth Scurr on the Art of Biography
- David Rubenstein on Private Equity, Public Art, and Philanthropy
- David Salle on the Experience of Art
- Stanley McChrystal on the Military, Leadership, and Risk
- Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality
- Amia Srinivasan on Utopian Feminism
- David Cutler and Ed Glaeser on the Health and Wealth of Cities
- Zeynep Tufekci on the Sociology of The Moment (Live)
- Andrew Sullivan on Braving New Intellectual Journeys
- Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History
- Alexander the Grate on Life as an NFA
- Richard Prum on Birds, Beauty, and Finding Your Own Way
- Elijah Millgram and the Philosophical Life
- David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them
- Mark Carney on Central Banking and Shared Values
- Pierpaolo Barbieri on Latin American FinTech
- Daniel Carpenter on Smart Regulation
- Shadi Bartsch on the Classics and China
- Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire
- Sarah Parcak on Archaeology from Space
- John Cochrane on Economic Puzzles and Habits of Mind
- Patricia Fara on Newton, Scientific Progress, and the Benefits of Unhistoric Acts
- Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy
- Benjamin Friedman on the Origins of Economic Belief
- Noubar Afeyan on the Permission to Leap
- Conversations with Tyler 2020 Retrospective
- John O. Brennan on Life in the CIA
- Zach Carter on the Life and Legacy of John Maynard Keynes
- Jimmy Wales on System and Incentives
- Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Art and Literature
- Michael Kremer on Economists as Founders
- Audrey Tang on the Technology of Democracy
- Alex Ross on Music, Culture, and Criticism
- Matt Yglesias on Why the Population is Too Damn Low
- Jason Furman on Productivity, Competition and Growth
- Nicholas Bloom on Management, Productivity, and Scientific Progress
- Nathan Nunn on the Paths to Development
- Melissa Dell on the Significance of Persistence
- Annie Duke on Poker, Probabilities, and How We Make Decisions
- Rachel Harmon on Policing
- Ashley Mears on Status and Beauty
- Thomas Hoenig on Bank Capitalization and Fed Policy after COVID-19
- Paul Romer on a Culture of Science and Working Hard
- Adam Tooze on our Financial Past and Future
- Glen Weyl on Fighting COVID-19 and the Role of the Academic Expert
- Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox
- Emily St. John Mandel on Fact, Fiction, and the Familiar
- Ross Douthat on Decadence and Dynamism
- Russ Roberts and Tyler on COVID-19
- John McWhorter on Linguistics, Music, and Race (Live at Mason)
- Garett Jones on Democracy (More or Less)
- Tim Harford on Persuasion and Popular Economics
- Ezra Klein on Why We’re Polarized
- Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests
- Slavoj Žižek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism
- Abhijit Banerjee on Theory, Practice, and India
- Tyler Looks Back on 2019 (BONUS)
- Esther Duflo on Management, Growth, and Research in Action
- Daron Acemoglu on the Struggle Between State and Society
- Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen on the Nature and Causes of Progress (Bonus)
- Shaka Senghor on Incarceration, Identity, and the Gift of Literacy
- Lunch with Fuchsia Dunlop at Mama Chang (Bonus)
- Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage
- Henry Farrell on Weaponized Interdependence, Big Tech, and Playing with Ideas
- Ben Westhoff on Synthetic Drugs, Dive Bars, and the Evolution of Rap
- Alain Bertaud on Cities, Markets, and People
- Samantha Power on Learning How to Make a Difference
- Hollis Robbins on 19th Century Life and Literature
- Masha Gessen on the Ins and Outs of Russia
- Kwame Anthony Appiah on Pictures of the World
- Neal Stephenson on Depictions of Reality
- Eric Kaufmann on Immigration, Identity, and the Limits of Individualism
- Hal Varian on Taking the Academic Approach to Business
- Russ Roberts on Life as an Economics Educator
- Ezekiel Emanuel on the Practice of Medicine, Policy, and Life
- Karl Ove Knausgård on Literary Freedom
- Margaret Atwood on Canada, Writing, and Invention
- Ed Boyden on Minding your Brain
- Emily Wilson on Translations and Language
- Raghuram Rajan on Understanding Community
- Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent
- Jordan Peterson on Mythology, Fame, and Reading People
- Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama on *Persecution and Toleration*
- Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
- Rebecca Kukla on Moving through and Responding to the World
- Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise
- Paul Romer on the Unrivaled Joy of Scholarship
- John Nye on Revisionist Economic History and Having Too Many Hobbies
- Eric Schmidt on the Life-Changing Magic of Systematizing, Scaling, and Saying "Thanks" (Live)
- Ben Thompson on Business and Tech
- Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments*
- Paul Krugman on Politics, Inequality, and Following Your Curiosity
- Bruno Maçães on the Spirit of Adventure
- Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Cultures
- Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely
- Michael Pollan on the Science and Sublimity of Psychedelics
- Michelle Dawson on Autism and Atypicality
- Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything
- Juan Pablo Villarino on Travel and Trust
- Elisa New on Poetry in America and Beyond
- David Brooks on Youth, Morality, and Loneliness (Live at Mason)
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Self-Education and Doing the Math (Plus special guest Bryan Caplan)
- Bryan Caplan on Learning across Disciplines (Live at Mason Econ)
- Balaji Srinivasan on the Power and Promise of the Blockchain
- Agnes Callard on the Theory of Everything
- Martina Navratilova on Shaping Herself (Live at Mason)
- Chris Blattman on Development, Conflict, and Doing What’s Interesting
- Robin Hanson on Signaling and Self-Deception (Live at Mason Econ)
- Matt Levine Live at Bloomberg HQ
- Charles C. Mann on Shaping Tomorrow’s World and the Limits to Growth
- Ross Douthat on Narrative and Religion (Live at Mason)
- Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space
- Doug Irwin on US Trade Policy
- Sujatha Gidla on being an Ant amongst the Elephants (Live)
- Steve Teles and Brink Lindsey on *the Captured Economy*
- Mary Roach on Disgust, Death, and Danger (Live at Mason)
- Larry Summers on Macroeconomics, Mentorship, and Avoiding Complacency (Live)
- Dave Barry on Humor, Writing, and Life as a Florida Man
- Dave Rubin on Digital Media, Crowdfunding, and Comedy (Live)
- Atul Gawande on Priorities, Big and Small
- Ben Sasse on the Space between Nebraska and Neverland (Live at Mason)
- Edward Luce on The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Live)
- Jill Lepore on Traveling through Time
- Tyler Cowen and Steve Davies talk Theresa May, Brexit, and Europe (Live)
- Raj Chetty on Teachers, Social Mobility, and How to Find Answers to Big Questions
- Garry Kasparov on AI, Chess, and the Future of Creativity
- Patrick Collison has a Few Questions for Tyler (Live at Stripe)
- Malcolm Gladwell Wants to Make the World Safe for Mediocrity (Live at Mason)
- *The Complacent Class* with Katherine Mangu-Ward (Live at Mason)
- Rabbi David Wolpe on Leadership, Religion, and Identity (Live at Sixth & I)
- Chef Mark Miller on Food as the Ultimate Intellectual Exploration
- Jhumpa Lahiri on Writing, Translation, and Crossing Between Cultures (Live at Mason)
- Joseph Henrich on WEIRD Societies and Life Among Two Strange Tribes (Live at Mason)
- Fuchsia Dunlop on Chinese Food, Culture, and Travel
- Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence (Live at Mason)
- Ezra Klein on Media, Politics, and Models of the World
- Margalit Fox on Life, Death, and the Best Job in Journalism
- Michael Orthofer on Why Fiction Matters
- Cass Sunstein on Judicial Minimalism, the Supreme Court, and Star Wars (Live at Mason)
- Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason)
- Jonathan Haidt on Morality, Politics, Disgust, and Intellectual Diversity on Campus
- Nate Silver on the Supreme Court and the Underrated Stat for Finding Good Food (Live at Mason)
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Fighting Bruce Lee, Growing Up in Harlem, and Basketball (Live at Mason)
- Cliff Asness on Comics and Why Never to Share a Gym with Cirque du Soleil (Live at Mason)
- Dani Rodrik on Premature Deindustrialization and Why the World is Second Best at Best
- Luigi Zingales on Italy, Google and Conglomeration, and Donald Trump (Live at Mason)
- Jeffrey Sachs on Charter Cities and How to Reform Graduate Economics Education (Live at Mason)
- Peter Thiel on Stagnation, Innovation, and What Not to Call your Company (Live at Mason)
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