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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   Roy Foster

   Roy Foster on Ireland's Many Unmade Futures · Apr 2022

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   Ruth Scurr

   Ruth Scurr on the Art of Biography · Dec 2021

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   Sarah Parcak

   Sarah Parcak on Archaeology from Space · Mar 2021

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   Scott Sumner

   Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema · Jan 2025

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   Seamus Murphy

   Seamus Murphy on Photographing Patterns Across Cultures · Sep 2025

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   Shadi Bartsch

   Shadi Bartsch on the Classics and China · Apr 2021

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   Sheilagh Ogilvie

   Sheilagh Ogilvie on Epidemics, Guilds, and the Persistence of Bad Institutions · Apr 2025

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   Shruti Rajagopalan

   Shruti Rajagopalan talks to Daniel Gross and Tyler about Identifying and Predicting Talent · Sep 2022

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   Simon Johnson

   Simon Johnson on Banking, Technology, and Prosperity · May 2023

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    Slavoj Žižek

    Slavoj Žižek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism · Jan 2020

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    Stephen Jennings

    Stephen Jennings on Building New Cities · Nov 2023

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    Steve Teles

    Steve Teles and Brink Lindsey on *The Captured Economy* · Nov 2017

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    Sujatha Gidla

    Sujatha Gidla on Being an Ant Amongst the Elephants (Live) · Nov 2017

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    Ted Gioia

    Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage · Nov 2019

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    Theodore Schwartz

    Theodore Schwartz on Neurosurgery, Consciousness, and Brain-Computer Interfaces · May 2025

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    Thomas Piketty

    Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality · Apr 2022

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    Toby Wilkinson

    Toby Wilkinson on Ptolemaic Egypt and the First Great Commercial Civilization · May 2026

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    Tom Tugendhat

    Tom Tugendhat on Modernizing the UK and Political Reform · Oct 2024

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    Vaughn Smith

    Vaughn Smith on Life as a Hyperpolyglot · Sep 2022

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    Velina Tchakarova

    Velina Tchakarova on China, Russia, and the Future of Geopolitics · Jun 2024

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    Vishy Anand

    Vishy Anand on Staying in the Game · Aug 2023

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    Yasheng Huang

    Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State · Mar 2023

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    Zach Carter

    Zach Carter on the Life and Legacy of John Maynard Keynes · Dec 2020

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    Edward Glaeser
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    Matthew Yglesias

    Matt Yglesias on Why the Population is Too Damn Low · Sep 2020

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    Philip Tetlock

    Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox · Apr 2020

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    Masha Gessen

    M. Gessen on the Ins and Outs of Russia · Aug 2019

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    Will MacAskill

    William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation · Aug 2022

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    Karl Ove Knausgaard

    Karl Ove Knausgård on Literary Freedom · May 2019

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