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Tyler Cowen’s book recommendations in 2022

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Conversations with Tyler 2022 Retrospective

Conversations with Tyler · 2022-12-28

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton · discussed · at 36:11
Sphere by Michael Crichton · discussed · at 36:25

Ken Burns on the Complications of History

Conversations with Tyler · 2022-11-16

Our America by Ken Burns · discussed · at 0:04

Reza Aslan on Martyrdom, Islam, and Revolution

Conversations with Tyler · 2022-10-19

An American Martyr in Persia by Reza Aslan · discussed · at 0:16
No god but God: The Origins and Evolution of Islam by Reza Aslan · discussed · at 0:21
Zealot - the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan · discussed · at 0:25

Walter Russell Mead on the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy

Conversations with Tyler · 2022-10-05

The Arc of a Covenant by Walter Russell Mead · discussed · at 9:05

Tyler Cowen on Talent

EconTalk · 2022-08-15

Talent by Tyler Cowen · discussed · at 23:36

William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation

Conversations with Tyler · 2022-08-10

The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith · discussed · at 58:31
What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill · recommended · at 1:00:45

The Secret To Finding Great Talent - Tyler Cowen - #482

Modern Wisdom · 2022-06-04

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien · discussed · at 12:28

Jamal Greene on Reconceiving Rights

Conversations with Tyler · 2022-06-01

How Rights Went Wrong by Jamal Greene · discussed · at 0:14
Three felonies a day by Harvey A. Silverglate · discussed · at 30:57

Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality

Conversations with Tyler · 2022-04-20

A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty · discussed · at 0:08
Submission by Michel Houellebecq · discussed · at 1:00:40

Tyler Cowen on Reading

EconTalk · 2022-04-18

The Western Canon by Harold Bloom · discussed · at 1:06
MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE by Herman Melville · discussed · at 11:44
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy · discussed · at 11:44
Bleak House by Charles Dickens · recommended · at 12:46
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust · recommended · at 16:25
Adventurer by Leo Damrosch · recommended · at 19:55
Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen · discussed · at 20:18
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen · recommended · at 20:42
The Voice Imitator by Thomas Bernhard · discussed · at 21:45
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin · recommended · at 22:50
Capitalism, the unknown ideal by Ayn Rand · discussed · at 41:12
Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit · discussed · at 41:46
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand · discussed · at 43:40
Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon · recommended · at 50:29
The Once and Future King by T. H. White · recommended · at 51:03
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner · recommended · at 53:51
Ulysses by James Joyce · recommended · at 55:35
The Republic by Plato · discussed · at 57:25
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith · discussed · at 57:27
Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell · recommended · at 57:35
Sum by David Eagleman · discussed · at 1:06:51

Roy Foster on Ireland's Many Unmade Futures

Conversations with Tyler · 2022-04-06

Modern Ireland and Revolution by Cormac K. H. O'Malley · recommended · at 0:16

Lydia Davis on Language and Literature

Conversations with Tyler · 2022-03-23

Essays One by Lydia Davis · discussed · at 0:32
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling · critiqued · at 27:35
DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes · discussed · at 43:24

Sebastian Mallaby on Venture Capital

Conversations with Tyler · 2022-02-09

The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby · recommended · at 1:05:02

Other mentions in 2022 (11: passing, ad reads, own books)