Conversations with Tyler

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Mercatus Center at George Mason University Visit website › Education · EN · 307 episodes · latest 2026-11-11

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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.

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Terence Tao on Proof, Beauty, and the Future of Mathematics

2026-11-11 · 44 min · Episode 296

Tyler calls Terence Tao arguably the greatest mathematician of his generation: a Fields Medal winner who has published serious work across harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, number theory, probability,…
Richard Hanania on Conrad's Nostromo, Latin American Crime, and Populism

2026-11-04 · 1 hr 3 min · Episode 295

Joseph Conrad's Nostromo, widely considered his masterpiece, follows a fictional Latin American country torn apart by corruption and its uneasy dependence on foreign capital. Tyler and Richard Hanania picked it hoping…
Roman Mars on Flags, Phones, and the Design of Everyday Life

2026-10-28 · 46 min · Episode 294

Roman Mars has built one of podcasting's great empires out of noticing things everyone else walks past. His show, 99% Invisible, has racked up over 500 million downloads telling stories about the unnoticed design…
Liaquat Ahamed on Financial Crises, Gold, and the Lessons of 1873

2026-10-14 · 45 min · Episode 293

Liaquat Ahamed has spent years making central bankers into compelling characters. His 2009 book Lords of Finance won the Pulitzer Prize for its account of the bankers whose decisions helped cause the Great Depression;…
Luis Garicano on Spain, Europe, and the Future of Work

2026-09-30 · 51 min · Episode 292

Luis Garicano has one of the more unusual résumés in economics: trained at the University of Chicago Booth School under Gary Becker, Kevin Murphy, and Sherwin Rosen, he left academia for a stint as a member of the…
Gita Gopinath on Trade, Currencies, and Economic Transformation

2026-09-23 · 56 min · Episode 291

Gita Gopinath has spent the last several years inside the room where the world's monetary plumbing gets fixed — or doesn't. As first deputy managing director of the IMF and, before that, the Fund's chief economist, she…
Annie Lowrey on the Time Tax, Fraud, and Rationing by Paperwork

2026-09-16 · 56 min · Episode 290

Annie Lowrey's new book, The Time Tax, argues that the most regressive levy in American life is the hours each of us must spend on hold, in waiting rooms, and filling out forms a competent state would have pre-filled —…
Jared Diamond on Leaders, Luck, and Irreplaceability

2026-09-09 · 52 min · Episode 289

Is leadership overrated? That's one simple reading of what Jared Diamond argues in his new book. Asked by Tyler to name the least replaceable leader in human history, Jared declines to name one — not Christ, the Roman…
Michael Moritz on Origin Stories, Exile, and Obsessive Curiosity

2026-09-02 · 42 min · Episode 288

Michael Moritz has written books through every phase of his life: the first history of Apple and an account of Chrysler's near-death while he was a journalist at Time, a study of Alex Ferguson's Manchester United in the…
Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Catholicism, and the Age of Social Contagion

2026-08-19 · 52 min · Episode 287

Luke Burgis left Wall Street after two years, founded a few successful companies in his twenties, then walked away to spend three years in a Roman seminary on the path to the priesthood. He now runs the Cluny Institute…

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Owner: Conversations with Tyler
Oldest episode in feed: 03/2015 · over 11 years
Typical length: 1 hr 0 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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