Conversations with Tyler

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

Episodes

Total: 242

Like the frontier characters from Deadwood, his favorite TV show, Marc Andreessen has discovered tha

What does it mean to uphold disability rights, or the right to economic liberty? What framework shou

If Tyler and Daniel's latest book can be boiled down into a single message, it would be that the wor

What causes war? Many scholars have spent their careers attempting to study the psychology of leader

When it comes to the enormous reduction of income inequality during the 20th century, Thomas Piketty

“The best history,” says Roy Foster, “is written when we realize that people acted in expectation of

A prolific translator, author, and former professor of creative writing, Lydia Davis’s motivation fo

Whether it’s scaling an arbitrage opportunity or launching an ambitious philanthropic project, Sam B

How do you go about writing a book on an era that is, for many, recent history? When Chuck Klosterma

Venture capital powered the tech revolution, but what powers venture capital? With his in-depth know

From psychedelics to cyberculture, hippie communes to commercial startups, and the Whole Earth Catal

In this special crossover special with EconTalk, Tyler interviews Russ Roberts about his new life in

Is genius born or made? For Croatian-born classical guitarist Ana Vidović the answer is both. Born i

Want to support the show? Visit donate.mercatus.org/podcasts. On this special year-in-review episod

Want to support the show? Visit donate.mercatus.org/podcasts When Ray Dalio was 23, President Nixon

The most challenging part of being a biographer for Ruth Scurr is finding the best form to tell a li

Baltimore native David Rubenstein is a founding figure in private equity, a prolific philanthropist,

When the audience for visual art expanded from small circles of artists and collectors into broader

Stan McChrystal has spent a long career considering questions of risk, leadership, and the role of A

Harvard professor Claudia Goldin has made a name for herself tackling difficult questions. What was