Conversations with Tyler

Tyler Cowen engages today's deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world, and everything in between. New conversations every other Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

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Every guest on Conversations with Tyler

269 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Joe Studwell

   Joe Studwell on Africa, Asia, and What Development Actually Requires · Feb 2026

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   John Adams

   John Adams on Composing and Creative Freedom · Dec 2022

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   John Amaechi

   John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Sports · Oct 2025

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   John Cochrane

   John Cochrane on Economic Puzzles and Habits of Mind · Mar 2021

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   John Nye

   John Nye on Revisionist Economic History and Having Too Many Hobbies · Nov 2018

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   Jonathan GPT Swift

   Jonathan GPT Swift on Jonathan Swift · Mar 2023

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   Jonny Steinberg

   Jonny Steinberg on South African Crime and Punishment, the Mandelas' Marriage, and the Post-Apartheid Era · Oct 2025

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   Juan Pablo Villarino

   Juan Pablo Villarino on Travel and Trust · Jul 2018

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   Julia Ioffe

   Julia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy · Aug 2026

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    Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell on the Art of Words · Jan 2023

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    Katja Hoyer

    Katja Hoyer on Weimar, the GDR, and the German Character · Jun 2026

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    Kenneth Rogoff

    Kenneth Rogoff on Monetary Moves, Fiscal Gambits, and Classical Chess · Apr 2025

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    Kim Bowes

    Kim Bowes on the Economic Lives of Rome's Ninety Percent · Apr 2026

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    Kwame Anthony Appiah

    Kwame Anthony Appiah on Pictures of the World · Jul 2019

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    Larissa MacFarquhar

    Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head · Jan 2019

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    Lazarus Lake

    Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential · Sep 2023

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    Leopoldo López

    Leopoldo López on Activism Under Autocratic Regimes · Jul 2022

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    Luigi Zingales

    Luigi Zingales on Italy, Google and Conglomeration, and Donald Trump (Live at Mason) · Sep 2015

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    Lydia Davis

    Lydia Davis on Language and Literature · Mar 2022

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    Marc Rowan

    Marc Rowan on Financial Market Evolution and University Governance · Mar 2024

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    Marilynne Robinson

    Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America · Mar 2024

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    Mark Koyama
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    Mary Gaitskill

    Mary Gaitskill on Subjects That Are Vexing Everybody · Nov 2022

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    Masaaki Suzuki

    Masaaki Suzuki on Interpreting Bach · Feb 2024

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    Melissa Dell

    Melissa Dell on the Significance of Persistence · Jul 2020

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    Michael Kremer

    Michael Kremer on Economists as Founders · Oct 2020

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    Michael Orthofer

    Michael Orthofer on Why Fiction Matters · Jul 2016

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    Michelle Dawson

    Michelle Dawson on Autism and Atypicality · Aug 2018

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    Nathan Nunn

    Nathan Nunn on the Paths to Development · Jul 2020

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    Noel Johnson

    Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama on *Persecution and Toleration* · Jan 2019

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    Patricia Fara

    Patricia Fara on Newton, Scientific Progress, and the Benefits of Unhistoric Acts · Feb 2021

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    Paul Gillingham

    Paul Gillingham on Why Mexico Stays Together · Mar 2026

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    Paul Graham

    Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent · Aug 2023

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    Paul Salopek

    Paul Salopek on Walking the World · Jan 2023

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    Paula Byrne

    Paula Byrne on Thomas Hardy's Women, Jane Austen's Humor, and Evelyn Waugh's Warmth · Dec 2024

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    Philip Ball

    Philip Ball on the Interplay of Science, Society, and the Quest for Understanding · Sep 2024

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    Rachel Harmon

    Rachel Harmon on Policing · Jun 2020

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    Rebecca F. Kuang

    Rebecca F. Kuang on National Literatures, Book Publishing, and History in Fiction · Jan 2024

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    Rebecca Kukla

    Rebecca Kukla on Moving through and Responding to the World · Jan 2019

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    Rob Wiblin

    Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments* · Oct 2018

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