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Tyler Cowen’s book recommendations in 2021

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Ray Dalio on Investing, Management, and the Changing World Order

Conversations with Tyler · 2021-12-15

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio · discussed · at 15:09

David Rubenstein on Private Equity, Public Art, and Philanthropy

Conversations with Tyler · 2021-11-17

The American Experiment by David M. Rubenstein · discussed · at 59:54

Stanley McChrystal on the Military, Leadership, and Risk

Conversations with Tyler · 2021-10-20

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer · discussed · at 36:37

David Cutler and Ed Glaeser on the Health and Wealth of Cities

Conversations with Tyler · 2021-09-08

Survival of the City by Edward L. Glaeser, David Cutler · discussed · at 0:16

Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History

Conversations with Tyler · 2021-07-28

Paper and Iron by Niall Ferguson · discussed · at 42:34
Doom by Niall Ferguson · recommended · at 1:03:20

Richard Prum on Birds, Beauty, and Finding Your Own Way

Conversations with Tyler · 2021-06-30

The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum · recommended · at 26:00

David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them

Conversations with Tyler · 2021-06-02

The Poverty of Historicism by Karl Popper · discussed · at 33:22
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper · discussed · at 33:22

Mark Carney on Central Banking and Shared Values

Conversations with Tyler · 2021-05-26

Values by Mark Carney · discussed · at 0:10

Pierpaolo Barbieri on Latin American FinTech

Conversations with Tyler · 2021-05-19

Hitler's Shadow Empire by Pierpaolo Barbieri · discussed · at 0:23

Daniel Carpenter on Smart Regulation

Conversations with Tyler · 2021-05-05

Democracy by Petition by Daniel Carpenter · discussed · at 1:01:16

Shadi Bartsch on the Classics and China

Conversations with Tyler · 2021-04-21

The Aeneid by Publius Vergilius Maro · discussed · at 0:14
Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin · discussed · at 16:29
The Civil War by Lucan · discussed · at 29:21
Metamorphoses by Ovid · discussed · at 35:36
Satiricon by Petronius · discussed · at 46:02
The golden asse of Lucius Apuleius by Ovid · recommended · at 46:10

#174 – Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth and the Fight Against Conformity and Mediocrity

Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-04-10

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky · discussed · at 20:52
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand · discussed · at 30:41
Capitalism, the unknown ideal by Ayn Rand · discussed · at 30:46
An Economic Survey of Iran by Iran · discussed · at 30:49
We the Living by Ayn Rand · discussed · at 32:12
Boswell's Life of Johnson by James Boswell · discussed · at 34:18
Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell · discussed · at 34:18
The Dialogues of Plato by Plato · recommended · at 1:54:13
The Use of Knowledge in Society by Friedrich August Hayek · recommended · at 1:54:16
Individualism by Friedrich A. von Hayek · recommended · at 1:54:25
Individualism and Economic Order by Friedrich A. von Hayek · recommended · at 1:54:25
The Essential Stalin by Joseph Stalin · discussed · at 1:58:15

Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire

Conversations with Tyler · 2021-04-07

Studying with Miss Bishop by Dana Gioia · discussed · at 0:30
The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch · discussed · at 26:25
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon · discussed · at 58:39

Tyler Cowen on the Pandemic, Revisited

EconTalk · 2021-04-05

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond · discussed · at 1:08:58

Sarah Parcak on Archaeology from Space

Conversations with Tyler · 2021-03-24

Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past by Sarah Parcak · discussed · at 0:22

Patricia Fara on Newton, Scientific Progress, and the Benefits of Unhistoric Acts

Conversations with Tyler · 2021-02-24

Life after Gravity by Patricia Fara · discussed · at 0:18
Middlemarch by George Eliot · discussed · at 44:27

Benjamin Friedman on the Origins of Economic Belief

Conversations with Tyler · 2021-01-27

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by Benjamin M. Friedman · discussed · at 0:08
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman · discussed · at 23:02
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker · discussed · at 31:57

Other mentions in 2021 (15: passing, ad reads, own books)