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Tyler Cowen’s book recommendations in 2023

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Conversations with Tyler 2023 Retrospective

Conversations with Tyler · 2023-12-27

Wed 21 by Juana Molina · discussed · at 46:45
Matangi by M.I.A. (Musician) · discussed · at 47:03
Benjamin Britten: A Life For Music by Neil Powell · discussed · at 1:01:39

Fuchsia Dunlop on the Story of Chinese Food

Conversations with Tyler · 2023-12-13

Invitation to a Banquet by Fuchsia Dunlop · recommended · at 1:44:01

John Gray on Pessimism, Liberalism, and Theism

Conversations with Tyler · 2023-11-29

The New Leviathans by John Gray · discussed · at 3:12

Tyler Cowen on the GOAT of Economics

EconTalk · 2023-11-27

Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy by Robert L. Heilbroner · discussed · at 1:50
The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons · discussed · at 1:50
Milton Friedman by Jennifer Burns · discussed · at 3:09
General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money by John Maynard Keynes · recommended · at 19:06
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith · recommended · at 19:19
Essays in positive economics by Milton Friedman · recommended · at 19:56
Free to Choose by Milton Friedman · discussed · at 20:02
Capitalism and freedom by Milton Friedman · discussed · at 20:02
The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek · recommended · at 21:29
The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill · recommended · at 21:47
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill · recommended · at 22:19
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill · recommended · at 22:20
An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus · recommended · at 22:37
The Constitution of Liberty by Friedrich August Hayek · critiqued · at 51:42
Law, Legislation, and Liberty, Volume 19 by F. A. Hayek · discussed · at 56:09
Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1 by F. A. Hayek · discussed · at 56:09

Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand

Conversations with Tyler · 2023-11-15

Milton Friedman by Jennifer Burns · recommended · at 0:16
Goddess of the Market by Jennifer Burns · recommended · at 0:18
Two lucky people by Milton Friedman · discussed · at 14:28
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand · discussed · at 42:01

Ada Palmer on Viking Metaphysics, Contingent Moments, and Censorship

Conversations with Tyler · 2023-10-04

Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot · discussed · at 23:05
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin · discussed · at 56:22
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin · discussed · at 56:22

Jerusalem Demsas on The Dispossessed, Gulliver's Travels, and Of Boys and Men

Conversations with Tyler · 2023-09-06

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin · discussed · at 0:36
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift · discussed · at 0:36
Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves · discussed · at 0:36
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin · discussed · at 15:01

Celebrating Marginal Revolution's 20th Anniversary

Conversations with Tyler · 2023-08-23

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt · discussed · at 3:08
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond · discussed · at 42:56
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins · discussed · at 43:09

How to Teach Millions of People with Your Blog | Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok | How I Write Podcast

How I Write · 2023-08-23

Star Wars by Drew Karpyshyn · discussed · at 46:31

David Bentley Hart on Reason, Faith, and Diversity in Religious Thought

Conversations with Tyler · 2023-07-12

The Book of Mormon by Unknown · discussed · at 18:56
The New Testament: an Introduction for the General Reader by Oscar Cullmann · critiqued · at 43:32

Reid Hoffman on the Possibilities of AI

Conversations with Tyler · 2023-06-28

Impromptu by Reid Hoffman · discussed · at 0:04
Dune by Frank Herbert · discussed · at 27:47
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin · discussed · at 57:19

Noam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress

Conversations with Tyler · 2023-06-14

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill · discussed · at 0:50

Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas

Conversations with Tyler · 2023-06-07

Animal Liberation by Peter Singer · discussed · at 0:14
Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer · discussed · at 0:20
A Darwinian Left by Peter Singer · discussed · at 7:45
Hegel by Peter Singer · discussed · at 39:31
Pushing Time Away by Peter Singer · discussed · at 44:45

Seth Godin on Marketing, Meaning, and the Bibs We Wear

Conversations with Tyler · 2023-05-31

The Song of Significance by Seth Godin · discussed · at 0:14
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling · discussed · at 4:30

Simon Johnson on Banking, Technology, and Prosperity

Conversations with Tyler · 2023-05-17

Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu · discussed · at 18:46
Jump-Starting America by Jonathan Gruber · discussed · at 47:08

The Book of revelation by Rupert Thomson · discussed · at 6:39
Genesis by Bernard Beckett · discussed · at 21:27
Exodus by Leon Uris · discussed · at 21:27
Dominion by Tom Holland · recommended · at 1:05:18

Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State

Conversations with Tyler · 2023-03-08

Capitalism with Chinese characteristics by Yasheng Huang · discussed · at 0:15
Rise and Fall of the EAST by Yasheng Huang · discussed · at 0:25

Brad DeLong on Intellectual and Technical Progress

Conversations with Tyler · 2023-02-22

A Farewell to Alms by Gregory Clark · discussed · at 31:00
The constitution of liberty by Friedrich A. von Hayek · discussed · at 34:41

Katherine Rundell on the Art of Words

Conversations with Tyler · 2023-01-11

Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell · recommended · at 0:20
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell · discussed · at 18:21
Skysteppers by Katherine Rundell · discussed · at 18:21
Foundation by Isaac Asimov · discussed · at 24:50
The pilgrim's progress by John Bunyan · discussed · at 57:41

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