Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2015-11-18
Tyler Cowen & Cliff Asness: books mentioned on Conversations with Tyler
Cliff Asness on Comics and Why Never to Share a Gym with Cirque du Soleil (Live at Mason)
Tyler and investment strategist Cliff Asness discuss momentum and value investing strategies, disagreeing with Eugene Fama, Marvel vs. DC, the inscrutability of risk, high frequency trading, the economics of Ayn Rand, bubble logic, and why never to share a gym with Cirque du Soleil.
Cliff Asness discussed Methuselah's Children by Robert Anson Heinlein.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The moon is a harsh mistress
“the Harsh Mistress is his most famously libertarian book”