Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2025-01-08
Tyler Cowen & Scott Sumner: books mentioned on Conversations with Tyler
Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema
Scott Sumner didn't follow the typical path to economic influence. He nearly lost his teaching job before tenure, did his best research after most academics slow down, and found his largest audience through blogging in his 50s and 60s, in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
Tyler Cowen discussed Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu. Scott Sumner discussed My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Solenoid
Discussed“How did you like Solenoid by the way? I know you were reading it. Did you finish it? I loved it. I thought this is one of the the best novels of the last 10 years.”
Where to get it
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My Struggle
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård, translated by Don Bartlett, is a massive, multi-volume autobiographical novel that chronicles the intimate and mundane details of the author's daily life.
Discussed“And I found it kind of mesmerizing in a similar way to My Struggle by Knausgård in that sometimes you finish a novel and it's you know, okay, on to the next one. That was a nice novel. And then there's some novels where you feel like a whole world has been sort of opened up in front of you.”
Where to get it
