Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2023-06-14
Tyler Cowen & Noam Chomsky: books mentioned on Conversations with Tyler
Noam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress
Noam Chomsky joins Tyler to discuss why Noam and Wilhelm von Humboldt have similar views on language and liberty, good and bad evolutionary approaches to language, what he thinks Stephen Wolfram gets
Tyler Cowen discussed On Liberty by John Stuart Mill. Noam Chomsky discussed Discourse on the origins of inequality (second discourse) ; Polemics ; and, Political economy by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Manufacturing consent by Edward S. Herman and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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On Liberty
Discussed“he was not only the founder of the modern research University but also one of the founders of Classical liberalism is fundamental Principle as he said it's actually a epigram for John Stuart Mills on Liberty is that the fundamental right of every person is to be free from external illegitimate constraints”
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Discourse on the origins of inequality (second discourse) ; Polemics ; and, Political economy
Discussed“so if you look at the second discourse on inequality it's highly libertarian deriving from basically Cartesian principles about the uniqueness of and creativity of human thought and language onto a fairly libertarian conception of social organization”
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Manufacturing consent
Discussed“and in the book that Edward Herman and I wrote about Manufacturing consently developed selected these conceptions looked at the structure of the media and tried to show that in fact the institutional structure the media these conceptions of the nature of the intellectual world combined to yield a very effective propaganda system”
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