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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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Andrew Graham-Dixon's new book, Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found, rests on the conviction that you cannot understand what's in a painting without knowing what its maker was thinking about. In Vermeer's case, that context includes a forgotten liberal se... more

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Chase Koch grew up receiving Sunday philosophy lessons from his father Charles and, by his own account, spent most of them half asleep while his sister supplied the answers. The principles didn't land until he lived them: throwing tennis matches as a... more

Joel Mokyr co-won the 2025 economics Nobel for exploring the question that traces back to the beginning of economics: how did sustained economic growth suddenly become normal? For nearly all of human history, cleverness didn't compound. What changed,... more

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Joanne Paul is a historian at the University of Sussex, author, and a go-to Tudor expert on YouTube. She tells Tyler she's drawn to the 16th century because it sits between the medieval and the modern, and because its paths not taken are a way of ask... more

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Chase Koch
Lead guitarist of Too Lot; Koch Disruptive Technologies; Stand Together
Too Lot, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Stand Together
Episode: Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy
Joel Mokyr
Professor at Northwestern University, author of Two Paths to Prosperity
Northwestern University
Episode: Joel Mokyr on Clans, Corporations, and a Culture of Growth
Joanne Paul
Historian, popular writer and broadcaster
University of Sussex
Episode: Joanne Paul on Thomas More and the Tudor World
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox
Roblox
Episode: Dave Baszucki on Roblox, Teen Entrepreneurs, and the Future of Play
Katja Hoyer
Historian and author; expert on Weimar, the GDR, and German history
Author, Historian
Episode: Katja Hoyer on Weimar, the GDR, and the German Character
Toby Wilkinson
Leading Egyptologist, author of The Last Dynasty
Clare College, Cambridge
Episode: Toby Wilkinson on Ptolemaic Egypt and the First Great Commercial Civilization
Bob Spitz
Biographer, author of The Rolling Stones, The Biography and other works
Author / Biographer
Episode: Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and the Art of Biography
Craig Newmark
Founder of Craigslist; philanthropist
Craigslist, Craig Newmark Philanthropies
Episode: Craig Newmark on Institutional Maintenance, Giving Away Control, and the Internet We Were Promised (Live at 92NY)
Kim Bowes
Archaeologist
University of Pennsylvania
Episode: Kim Bowes on the Economic Lives of Rome's Ninety Percent

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Tyler Cowen
Host of conversations focused on economics, culture, and public policy; prolific interviewer with a broad intellectual remit

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4.8 out of 5 stars from 4.5k ratings
  • 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
    Germanya month 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
    Canadaa month 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 States2 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 States3 months ago
  • Great podcast

    I learn something (often many things) every time I listen to one of Professor Cowen’s interviews. The guests are interesting and the conversations are great. As a high school social science teacher, there is always something from these episodes that I can use in class. I highly recommend this podcast.

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    United States4 months ago

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Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy
Q: Can you explain how Stand Together Music was born and what it aims to achieve?
Stand Together Music was born during COVID as a way to leverage music to drive social change, partnering with artists to address issues like criminal justice reform and education reform, using platforms like Zoom to reach broad audiences and create impact.
Joel Mokyr on Clans, Corporations, and a Culture of Growth
Q: Start by telling us, in the book, your thesis is about European corporations vs. Chinese clans and the importance of that difference. How would you explain it?
The core idea is that Europe developed non-kin networks to produce local public goods like education, religious services, and autonomous cities, which effectively created corporations that could coordinate among unrelated individuals. In China, the extended clan remained the organizing unit, and the imperial bureaucracy often partnered with those clans, limiting the formation of similar corporate structures.
Katja Hoyer on Weimar, the GDR, and the German Character
Q: Why did the Weimar Constitution fail so decisively?
She outlines multiple factors: flaws in proportional representation, emergency powers (Article 48), the rushed postwar constitution born of crisis, economic turmoil, and the susceptibility of a fragile democracy to extremist hijacking, all contributing to a brittle system.
Katja Hoyer on Weimar, the GDR, and the German Character
Q: Before the wall came down, how happy or unhappy do you think East Germans were?
Her conclusion is that happiness varied by personal circumstance; many lived a decent life but feared divergence from state-approved paths, and the Stasi created a climate where social life could be monitored and strained depending on one's associations.
Katja Hoyer on Weimar, the GDR, and the German Character
Q: Let me start with East Germany more generally. Why was it that communism seems to have made the Poles and Romanians more anti-communist, but it made the East Germans overall more communist?
The guest explains that in East Germany the system built a pervasive state apparatus, with strong historical precedents from autocratic rule and the Stasi's reach, which fostered a culture of conformity. However, there were pockets of nuance; some artists and intellectuals found space to critique the state, while the overall social environment tended toward compliance.

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