Tyler Cowen engages today’s deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world,
Want to support the show? Visit conversationswithtyler.com/donate. On this special year-in-review e
Want to support the show? Visit conversationswithtyler.com/donate. Growing up in a working-class ci
After reading Zach Carter’s intellectual biography of Keynes earlier this year, Tyler declared tha
Jimmy Wales used to joke that choosing to build Wikipedia on a non-profit, non-advertising model was
Edwidge Danticat left Haiti when she was 12, she says, but Haiti never left her. At 14 she began wri
Michael Kremer is best known for his academic work researching global poverty, for which he was awar
Audrey Tang began reading classical works like the Shūjīng and Tao Te Ching at the age of 5 and lear
To Alex Ross, good music critics must be well-rounded and have command of neighboring cultural areas
Matt Yglesias joined Tyler for a wide-ranging conversation on his vision for a bigger, less politica
Note: This conversation was recorded in January 2020. Tyler credits Jason Furman’s intellectual brea
What might the electrification of factories teach us about how quickly we’ll adapt to remote work? W
Nathan Nunn’s work history includes automotive stores, a freight company, a paint factory, a ski hil
Explaining 10 percent of something is not usually cause for celebration. And yet when it comes to ec
For Annie Duke, the poker table is a perfect laboratory to study human decision-making — including h
Long before becoming a legal scholar focused on police reform, Rachel Harmon studied engineering at
Ashley Mears is a former fashion model turned academic sociologist, and her book Very Important Peo
Paul Romer makes his second appearance to discuss the failings of economics, how his mass testing pl
Adam Tooze is best known for his highly-regarded books on the economic history of Nazi Germany, the
Glen Weyl is an economist, researcher, and founder of RadicalXChange. He recently co-authored a pape
Accuracy is only one of the things we want from forecasters, says Philip Tetlock, a professor at the
