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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 9 days 11 hours 38 minutes
episode 83: Abhijit Banerjee on Theory, Practice, and India
Tyler’s former grad school classmate has made quite a name for himself.
episode 82: Esther Duflo on Management, Growth, and Research in Action
How Duflo found her calling in the midst of revolution.
episode 81: Daron Acemoglu on the Struggle Between State and Society
How institutions shape the fate of nations.
Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen on the Nature and Causes of Progress (Bonus)
Patrick and Tyler are obsessed with progress—and they think you should be too.
episode 80: Shaka Senghor on Incarceration, Identity, and the Gift of Literacy
How do you survive seven years in solitary? Escape into books.
Lunch with Fuchsia Dunlop at Mama Chang (Bonus)
Three years after her first appearance, Chinese food expert Fuchsia Dunlop joins Tyler for a delicious homestyle Chinese meal.
episode 79: Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage
With music, forget about “high brow” versus “low brow.” The real distinction is between the innovative and the formulaic.
episode 78: Henry Farrell on Weaponized Interdependence, Big Tech, and Playing with Ideas
The one concept most valuable for understanding the news today might be Henry Farrell's theory of weaponized interdependence.
episode 77: Ben Westhoff on Synthetic Drugs, Dive Bars, and the Evolution of Rap
Does it matter that Hasbro owns Death Row Records?