Conversations with Tyler
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.
Want the full transcripts? Read any episode of Conversations with Tyler word for word on Podmenti. Podmenti →“Richard has a new book out. called cacistocracy. Why populism ends in disaster”
“we decided jointly we would start off the conversation by discussing Joseph Conrad Stostromo”
“that essay Autocracy on and war that you recommended. Right. Written by Conrad”
“The biography you recommended is Jasinov, is that how you say the woman's name Maya Jasinov I read the biography”
“read the secret agent because I don't want just You know, the summary of the book”
“I quote Conrad shows this so foul a sky clears not without a storm. Which I think's from King John”
“there's a guy I know, Dennis McCarthy, who wrote a very convincing book that I think I I don't want to maybe this is too much of a digression, but thanks that Thomas North actually wrote Shakespeare”
“He also has an excellent book. The 99% Invisible City subtitle A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design, also with Kurt Colstedt”
“usually because it adheres to these sort of guidelines that Ted K like laid out in his vexillogy handbook”
“Today I am chatting with Liakat Ahmed eighteen seventy three. The Rothschilds, The First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World”
“Many of you will know him as the author of Lords of Finance, The Bankers Who Broke the World from two thousand nine”
“I actually prefer the American novels of the nineteen twenties. Like Fitzgerald. Hemingway. Yeah. Those rather than Choice. And Ulysses”
“David Halberstom's the best and the brightest. Why do you find that book so notable”
“I've been r reading a great book. About Intellectual movement in France. During the Fourties, fifties, sixties”
“It is called Messy Jobs, and it is co authored with Jim Lee and And Yan Hui Wu”
“I also like Soldiers of Solamis, and the recent one about the trip with the Pope”
“I think that your colleague Brian Caplan wrote a beautiful book about it, The Myth of the Rational Voter”
“She has a new and excellent book called The Time Tax, How the Government Wastes Our Time and How to Fix It”
“She also has an earlier book, Give People Money. on universal basic income”
“You recently read a book called The History of Christianity. Which one was it and what was interesting in the book to you? So this was a history of Christianity the first 3,000 years”
“There's a good book that I read about Pakistan. But I forgot the exact title, but it was about Pakistan's issues with paperwork and the transition from British rule to self-rule”
“So I got the fifth son and then just Aztecs, I think, is the other one, which I'm excited to read”
“He has a new and notable book out. Called. Prophets. Prophets. Coaches and Kings When do leaders matter”
“Is it correct to think of your new book? Again, Prophets, Prophets, Coaches and Kings. As in essence the error term. For guns, germs, and steel”
“That book and Darwin's Origin of Species are probably the two books by scientists that have had the biggest impact in the last century”
“My first book, The Third Chimpanzee, had chapters on things that then ended up being auto books”
“another chapter of my book, The Third Gemini, got expanded into Collapsed”
“Before that he was a very active and successful journalist with several books to his credit, including The First Study of Apple and an excellent work on Alex Ferguson”
“including The First Study of Apple and an excellent work on Alex Ferguson. of Manchester United”
“Michael has a new and excellent book out called How slandered. One family story of escape and exile, which I absolutely recommend to you all”
“He's author of the best selling book, Wanting, and his recent work is just coming out”
“It is called The One and the Ninety Nine. Forging identity in the age of social contagion”
“in his book The Burnout Society, which is one of my favorite books, I think he diagnoses the problem very well”
“His book Demons diagnoses what can happen at a psychic and spiritual level when social contagion runs rampant”
“Von Balthazar wrote a whole aesthetic treatise, right? The theological aesthetics”
“What happened to liberal democracy? This is a major work”
“It is called Motherland, a feminist history of modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy”
“The book Secondhand Time completely Turn my head. around and made me realize that I had been writing about Russia all wrong”
“Which is about these Teenage Soviet girls. joining the fight in World War Two as machine gunners, as fighter pilots, as uh paratroopers ... The Unwomanly Face of War”
“And then the th The third that I would recommend is Mary. By Vladimir Nabokov”
“Marcel Proust Writes his great novel A la recherche du Tonperdue”
“It is called Becoming a Principle Driven Leader subtitled Forty One Principles to Build an Enduring Business”
“one of the books that had a huge in influence on me was The Obstacle is the way”
“He has a wonderful new book out called Two Paths to Prosperity, Culture and Institutions in Europe and China. One thousand to two thousand”
“So I recall in the nineteen nineties reading Frank Fukiyama's book Trust”
“that's essentially the you know the tenor of Joe Hendrick's book. called you know the weirdest people in which he he points this out”
“I'm a big fan of your new book with Grife and Tabalini Two Paths to Prosperity Comparing Europe and China”
“I very much enjoyed her latest book called Thomas More A Life Which is on sale now”
“Now, as you know, Erasmus wrote quite a bit about Thomas Moore. including a dedicatory letter in In Praise of Folly”
“Why is Mutiny on the Bounty one of your favorite books”
“She just published a new and very interesting book called Weimar, Life on the Edge of Catastrophe”
“She's well known for her history of East Germany, called Beyond the Wall”
“and a broader book on earlier German history called Blood and Iron, The Rise and Fall of the German Empire”
“So if you take Christopher Wolf, for example, who wrote famous book called Divided Heaven”
“there was a book that came out at the same time as mine by Doug Oshman, called Der Osten ist eine Erfindung des Westens”
“It is called The Last Dynasty, Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra”
“people looking for echoes of the biblical, the Judeo Christian narrative in in ancient Egyptian texts”
“He has a new book out which I enjoyed very, very much. The Rolling Stones, the biography”
“He has other very well-known books on ... Julia Child”
“especially people who want to know if he's ever going to finish that last installment of the Johnson biography”
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