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Conversations with Tyler
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... more

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Episodes

Sheilagh Ogilvie on Epidemics, Guilds, and the Persistence of Bad Institutions

Sheilagh Ogilvie has spent decades examining the institutional structures that shaped European economic history, challenging conventional wisdom about everything from... more

02 Apr 2025 · 59 minutes
Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda

What happens when a liberal thinker shifts his attention from polarization to economic abundance? Ezra Klein’s new book with Derek... more

19 Mar 2025 · 1 hour, 8 minutes
Carl Zimmer on the Hidden Life in the Air We Breathe

Carl Zimmer is one of the finest science communicators of our time, having spent decades writing about biology, evolution, and... more

05 Mar 2025 · 51 minutes
Gregory Clark on Social Mobility, Migration, and Assortative Mating (Live at Mercatus)

How much of your life’s trajectory was set in motion centuries ago? Gregory Clark has spent decades studying social... more

19 Feb 2025 · 1 hour, 23 minutes
Ross Douthat on Why Religion Makes More Sense Than You Think

Sign Up for the Boston Listener Meet Up For Ross Douthat, phenomena like UFO sightings and the simulation hypothesis... more

05 Feb 2025 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
Joe Boyd on the Birth of Rock, World Music, and Being There for Everything

Sign Up for the Boston Listener Meet Up Joe Boyd was there when Dylan went electric, when Pink Floyd... more

22 Jan 2025 · 1 hour,
Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema

Scott Sumner didn't follow the typical path to economic influence. He nearly lost his teaching job before tenure, did his... more

08 Jan 2025 · 1 hour, 8 minutes
Conversations with Tyler 2024 Retrospective

Donate to Conversations with Tyler Give Crypto Other Ways to Give On this special year-in-review... more

25 Dec 2024 · 58 minutes
Paula Byrne on Thomas Hardy’s Women, Jane Austen’s Humor, and Evelyn Waugh’s Warmth

Donate to Conversations with Tyler Give Crypto Other Ways to Give What can Thomas Hardy’s tortured marriages teach... more

11 Dec 2024 · 54 minutes
Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography

Donate to Conversations with Tyler Give Crypto Other Ways to Give In his landmark multi-volume biography of Stalin,... more

04 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 26 minutes