Conversations with Tyler

Tyler Cowen engages today’s deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world,

Episodes

Total: 249

Elisa New believes anyone can have fun reading a poem. And that if you really want to have a blast,

For two hours every morning, David Brooks crawls around his living room floor, organizing piles of r

Though what Taleb was really after was a discussion with Bryan Caplan (which starts at 51:50), the p

"No single paper is that good", says Bryan Caplan. To really understand a topic, you need to read th

When Balaji Srinivasan sat down for his conversation with Tyler he was the CEO of Earn.com. Today he

Is a written dialogue the best way to learn from philosopher Agnes Callard? If so, what does that sa

Martina Navratilova is one of the greatest tennis players of all time. No one has won more matches t

Chris Blattman’s made his career as a development economist by finding a place he likes and finding

If intros aren’t about introductions, then what’s this here for? Is not including one a countersigna

Is Matt Levine a modern-day Horace? Like Matt, Horace has a preoccupation with wealth and the law. T

At the beginning of their conversation, Tyler dubs Charles C. Mann a tlamatini, or ‘he who knows thi

Last year, Tyler asked his readers “What Is the Strongest Argument for the Existence of God?” and fo

Before writing a single word of his new book Artemis, Andy Weir worked out the economics of a lunar

Tyler thinks Douglas Irwin has just released the best history of American trade policy ever written.

Sujatha Gidla was an untouchable in India, but moved to the United States at the age of 26 and is no

What happens when a liberal and a libertarian get together?  In the case of Steve Teles and Brink Li

Legal writing was never Mary Roach’s thing. She describes that short-lived stint as an inscrutable “

The economist, President Emeritus at Harvard University, and former Treasury Secretary joins Tyler t

Though most know him first as a humor columnist, Dave Barry’s career has spanned many forms of media

Today many YouTube channels have more influence than traditional TV shows. This fact is not lost on