Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2023-11-15
Tyler Cowen & Jennifer Burns: books mentioned on Conversations with Tyler
Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand
Jennifer Burns is a professor of history at Stanford who works at the intersection of intellectual, political, and cultural history.
Tyler Cowen recommended Milton Friedman by Jennifer Burns and Goddess of the Market by Jennifer Burns, and discussed Two lucky people by Milton Friedman and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Jennifer Burns discussed A positive program for laissez faire by Henry Calvert Simons, A monetary history of the United States by Milton Friedman, and Capitalism and freedom by Milton Friedman, and criticized Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Milton Friedman
Recommended“she has a new book out which I just loved it is called Milton fredman the last conservative”
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Goddess of the Market
Recommended“and her earlier book I also like very much that is goddess of the market Ein Rand and the American right”
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A positive program for laissez faire
Discussed“Henry Simons had a book that was sort of a big deal in the 1930s it was called a positive program for Le fair”
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A monetary history of the United States
Discussed“that also comes after he's completed with Anna Schwarz his magnum opus a monetary History of the United States”
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Capitalism and freedom
Discussed“I don't think we'd have Milton the public intellectual without Rose and that is specifically putting together capitalism and freedom”
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Two lucky people
Discussed“now how is it that you read their joint Memoir two lucky people”
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Atlas Shrugged
Critiqued“the the pity with Atlas Shrugged is she was uneditable by that time and she really needed to be edited”
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The Fountainhead
Discussed“the sex scenes in Atlas Shrugged and Fountain Head what what do you make of them as a reader today”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Gone with the Wind
“so there's Rand there's Gone With the Wind but very little else comes to mind”