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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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Liaquat Ahamed has spent years making central bankers into compelling characters. His 2009 book Lords of Finance won the Pulitzer Prize for its account of the bankers whose decisions helped cause the Great Depression; his new book, 1873: The Rothschi... more

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Luis Garicano has one of the more unusual résumés in economics: trained at the University of Chicago Booth School under Gary Becker, Kevin Murphy, and Sherwin Rosen, he left academia for a stint as a member of the European Parliament before returning... more

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Gita Gopinath has spent the last several years inside the room where the world's monetary plumbing gets fixed — or doesn't. As first deputy managing director of the IMF and, before that, the Fund's chief economist, she worked on sovereign debt restru... more

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Annie Lowrey's new book, The Time Tax, argues that the most regressive levy in American life is the hours each of us must spend on hold, in waiting rooms, and filling out forms a competent state would have pre-filled — roughly fifty a year on average... more

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Liaquat Ahamed
Author of Lords of Finance and 1873, The Rothschilds, The First Great Depression and The Making of the Modern World
Author, Historian
Episode: Liaquat Ahamed on Financial Crises, Gold, and the Lessons of 1873
Luis Garicano
Spanish economist, former MEP, author of Messy Jobs
London School of Economics
Episode: Luis Garicano on Spain, Europe, and the Future of Work
Gita Gopinath
Professor of Economics at Harvard; former IMF Chief Economist
Harvard University; IMF (former)
Episode: Gita Gopinath on Trade, Currencies, and Economic Transformation
Annie Lowrey
Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of The Time Tax
The Atlantic
Episode: Annie Lowrey on the Time Tax, Fraud, and Rationing by Paperwork
Jared Diamond
Author and professor of geography at UCLA, historian of environment and society
University of California, Los Angeles
Episode: Jared Diamond on Leaders, Luck, and Irreplaceability
Michael Moritz
Venture capitalist at Sequoia; author and philanthropist
Sequoia Capital; Crankstart
Episode: Michael Moritz on Origin Stories, Exile, and Obsessive Curiosity
Luke Burgis
Author of Wanting and The One and the Ninety-Nine; Director and Founder of the Cluny Institute
Cluny Institute
Episode: Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Catholicism, and the Age of Social Contagion
Daron Acemoglu
Nobel laureate in economics, author of What Happened to Liberal Democracy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Episode: Daron Acemoglu on Liberalism, Automation, and the Educated Elite
Julia Ioffe
Washington correspondent and author of Motherland, A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy
Puck (journalist); Author
Episode: Julia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy

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Tyler Cowen
Host of conversations with leading thinkers across economics, history, culture, and public life.

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4.8 out of 5 stars from 4.6k ratings
  • Perhaps THE typical American "intelligent interviewer"

    A European listening to this is blown away by the interviewer's combination of brisk rudeness, complete lack of curiosity and – amazing given his position – endless employment of stereotypes. It's not "a conversation", just a guy firing questions at an interviewee. That said, however, little different from anything else produced by the soi-disant cream of American podcasting

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    Just read the book
    United States2 months ago
  • AI navel-gazing

    Yo, weekly guest, I’m happy for you and I’mma let you finish, but did you know that AI is smarter than a graduate student now???

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    pike.spade
    Germany4 months ago
  • Gaming

    The addiction to computer gaming is not mentioned. Unemployed young people living at home with income from government are kept under addiction to these games. Impact on brain will be noticed ten years from now. Just like smoking and alcohol.

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    Hbkool
    Canada4 months ago
  • Rolling Stones

    Tyler: Exile On Main Street is “ MUSH” !

    Exile scored 11 Number-One hit singles across their career, reaching the top of both pop and country charts.

    You sir, are an idiot. And so is the quest whose Rolling Stones book is filled with errors.

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    JNLCIA
    United States5 months ago
  • Excellent!

    Can’t believe I’m just discovering this. Tyler is a great interviewer who asks a great number of interesting questions and allows his guests to share their knowledge without interruption. I walk away from each episode having learned something, and very much enjoy the breezy, conversational tone of the discussion. Bravo!

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    DSM341
    United States6 months ago

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Liaquat Ahamed on Financial Crises, Gold, and the Lessons of 1873
Q: Now, you've done a great deal of reading about this era. What has surprised you the most or what views have you revised as a result of all that reading?
I was surprised by how resilient the economy actually was during the downturn, and more importantly by how fractured political economies and the retreat of liberalism reshaped institutions and long-run policy outcomes.
Liaquat Ahamed on Financial Crises, Gold, and the Lessons of 1873
Q: I have a general question about how your work fits together. So your book Lords of Finance convinced me that financial crises matter, and your new book 1873 almost convinced me that financial crises don't really matter, because the world just keeps on growing. So what makes for the difference for when historically speaking, crises will really matter?
The first book focused on a crisis that plunged the world into a Great Depression, while 1873 was a crisis that didn't cause a deep global slump but did produce lasting, wide-ranging effects on political economy and policy over the following decades.
Luis Garicano on Spain, Europe, and the Future of Work
Q: Should the EU keep its unanimity rule for major decisions?
The guest explains that large parts of core state functions operate under majority rule, but unanimity persists in sensitive areas like taxation and defense; removing unanimity could accelerate integration, yet politics create resistance because any reform can have a loser, making Pareto improvements rare.
Luis Garicano on Spain, Europe, and the Future of Work
Q: Why is there a current productivity crisis in Spain?
Productivity growth has been weak for decades, despite immigration and tourism; the guest attributes much of the stagnation to political economy and governance, noting Spain's aging population, high pensions, insufficient productive investment, and a political system that channels incentives toward retirees rather than growth-oriented reform.
Luis Garicano on Spain, Europe, and the Future of Work
Q: We will get to Messy Jobs, but first I have so many questions about Spain. So why is it that Spain has become so NIMBY?
The guest argues that a housing bubble created a triangle of interests among developers, local politicians, and banks, which linked easy building with corruption and high prices. Post-crisis reforms restricted municipal land decisions, leading to a rigid supply and a YIMBY vacuum, with very little new housing built despite empty land in many areas.

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