Conversations with Tyler
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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.
Notable Guests
Episodes (299)
Michael Moritz on Origin Stories, Exile, and Obsessive Curiosity
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Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Catholicism, and the Age of Social Contagion
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Daron Acemoglu on Liberalism, Automation, and the Educated Elite
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Julia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy
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Andrew Graham-Dixon on Vermeer, a Forgotten Sect, and Underrated Artists
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Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy
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Joel Mokyr on Clans, Corporations, and a Culture of Growth
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Joanne Paul on Thomas More and the Tudor World
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Dave Baszucki on Roblox, Teen Entrepreneurs, and the Future of Play
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Katja Hoyer on Weimar, the GDR, and the German Character
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Toby Wilkinson on Ptolemaic Egypt and the First Great Commercial Civilization
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Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and the Art of Biography
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Craig Newmark on Institutional Maintenance, Giving Away Control, and the Interne...
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Kim Bowes on the Economic Lives of Rome's Ninety Percent
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Arthur Brooks on Reinvention, Religion, and the Science of Happiness
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Paul Gillingham on Why Mexico Stays Together
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Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli, Straussianism, and the Character of Liberal Dem...
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Henry Oliver on Measure for Measure, Late Bloomers, and the Smartest Writers in...
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Joe Studwell on Africa, Asia, and What Development Actually Requires
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Andrew Ross Sorkin on Market Bubbles, Banking Rules, and the Real Lessons of 192...
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Diarmaid MacCulloch on Christianity, Sex, and Unsettling Settled Facts
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Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work
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Conversations with Tyler 2025 Retrospective
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Alison Gopnik on Childhood Learning, AI as a Cultural Technology, and Rethinking...
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Gaurav Kapadia on New York City, Investing, and Contemporary Art
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Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other
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Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI
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Blake Scholl on Supersonic Flight and Fixing Broken Infrastructure - Live at the...
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Donald S. Lopez Jr. on Buddhism
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Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Pr...
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Jonny Steinberg on South African Crime and Punishment, the Mandelas' Marriage, a...
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George Selgin on the New Deal, Regime Uncertainty, and What Really Ended the Gre...
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John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Sports
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Steven Pinker on Coordination, Common Knowledge, and the Retreat of Liberal Enli...
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David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf States
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Seamus Murphy on Photographing Patterns Across Cultures
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David Brooks on Audacity, AI, and the American Psyche (Live at 92NY)
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Nate Silver on Life's Mixed Strategies
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Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Intelligence Operations, and Conspiracy Realities
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Helen Castor on Medieval Power and Personalities
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David Robertson on Conducting, Pierre Boulez, and Musical Interpretation
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Austan Goolsbee on Central Banking as a Data Dog
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Chris Arnade on Walking Cities
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Any Austin on the Hermeneutics of Video Games
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John Arnold on Trading, Energy, and Evidence-Based Philanthropy
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Theodore Schwartz on Neurosurgery, Consciousness, and Brain-Computer Interfaces
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Jack Clark on AI's Uneven Impact
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Kenneth Rogoff on Monetary Moves, Fiscal Gambits, and Classical Chess
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Chris Dixon on Blockchains, AI, and the Future of the Internet
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Ian Leslie on McCartney, Lennon, and the Greatest Creative Partnership of All Ti...
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