Conversations with Tyler

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

Episodes

Total: 241

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

The surgeon, researcher, and celebrated writer joined Tyler for a conversation on why Watson will ne

The US senator and former college president joined Tyler for a conversation on adolescence, adulthoo

Edward Luce has a new book out about the rising crisis in Western liberalism, so naturally Tyler’s f

Is time like a line, a stretched out accordion, buried silos, or a flat circle? We concoct many ways

The UK is holding a big election on June 8, so today we’re bringing you some bonus audio on that top

A high school teacher once told Raj Chetty he’d some day serve on the Federal Reserve Board. At the

The chess grandmaster, political activist, and author joins Tyler for a conversation on artificial i

A few months ago, Tyler asked Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, to be on the show. Patrick agreed, bu