Celebrating Marginal Revolution's 20th Anniversary
When Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen launched Marginal Revolution in August of 2003, they saw attracting a few thousand academic-minded readers as a runaway success. To their astonishment, the blog soon...
23 Elo 202358min
Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent
Tyler and Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham sat down at his home in the English countryside to discuss what areas of talent judgment his co-founder and wife Jessica Livingston is better at, whether ...
9 Elo 202355min
Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded
Tyler sat down at Comedy Cellar with owner Noam Dworman to talk about the ever-changing stand-up comedy scene, including the perfect room temperature for stand-up, whether comedy can still shock us, t...
26 Heinä 202359min
David Bentley Hart on Reason, Faith, and Diversity in Religious Thought
David Bentley Hart is an American writer, philosopher, religious scholar, critic, and theologian who has authored over 1,000 essays and 19 books, including a very well-known translation of the New Tes...
12 Heinä 202355min
Reid Hoffman on the Possibilities of AI
In his second appearance, Reid Hoffman joined Tyler to talk everything AI: the optimal liability regime for LLMs, whether there'll be autonomous money-making bots, which agency should regulate AI, how...
28 Kesä 20231h 1min
Noam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress
Noam Chomsky joins Tyler to discuss why Noam and Wilhelm von Humboldt have similar views on language and liberty, good and bad evolutionary approaches to language, what he thinks Stephen Wolfram gets ...
14 Kesä 202350min
Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas
Peter Singer is one of the world's most influential living philosophers, whose ideas have motivated millions of people to change how they eat, how they give, and how they interact with each other and ...
7 Kesä 202352min
Seth Godin on Marketing, Meaning, and the Bibs We Wear
On good days, Seth Godin thinks about all the progress we're making on climate change. On bad days, he thinks about the problem of racing bibs. Though pieces of paper safety-pinned to runners' chests ...
31 Touko 202354min
