Tyler Looks Back on 2019 (BONUS)
Want to support future conversations? Visit conversationswithtyler.com/donate. For this special retrospective episode, producer Jeff Holmes sat down with Tyler to discuss the past year in conversatio...
23 Joulu 201952min
Esther Duflo on Management, Growth, and Research in Action
Want to support future conversations? Visit conversationswithtyler.com/donate. Esther Duflo's advice to students? Spend time in the field. "It's only through this exposure that you can learn how wr...
18 Joulu 20191h 1min
Daron Acemoglu on the Struggle Between State and Society
What determines the economic, social, and political trajectories of nations? Why were settlers in colonies like Jamestown and Australia able to escape the extractive systems desired by their British m...
4 Joulu 201955min
Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen on the Nature and Causes of Progress (Bonus)
Over the past year Mark Zuckerberg has held a series of interviews themed around technology and society. This conversation with Tyler and Patrick is the last in that series, and covers why they think ...
27 Marras 20191h 8min
Shaka Senghor on Incarceration, Identity, and the Gift of Literacy
How do you survive seven years in solitary confinement? The gift of literacy is what saved Shaka Senghor. Reading, journaling, academic study, and writing books was a way to structure and survive an i...
20 Marras 20191h
Lunch with Fuchsia Dunlop at Mama Chang (Bonus)
Three years after her first appearance, Chinese food expert Fuchsia Dunlop joins Tyler to celebrate the release of her latest cookbook and talk all things food and China. This time the conversation wa...
13 Marras 20191h 16min
Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage
To Ted Gioia, music is a form of cloud storage for preserving human culture. And the real cultural conflict, he insists, is not between "high brow" and "low brow" music, but between the innovative and...
6 Marras 20191h 3min
Henry Farrell on Weaponized Interdependence, Big Tech, and Playing with Ideas
The one concept most valuable for understanding the news today might be Henry Farrell's theory of weaponized interdependence. Whether it's China's influence over the NBA, the US ban of Huawei, or whet...
23 Loka 20191h 11min
