John Cochrane on Economic Puzzles and Habits of Mind
What unites John Cochrane the finance economist and "grumpy" policy blogger with John Cochrane the accomplished glider pilot? For John, the answer is that each derives from the same habit of mind whic...
10 Mar 202158min
Patricia Fara on Newton, Scientific Progress, and the Benefits of Unhistoric Acts
Patricia Fara is a historian of science at Cambridge University and well-known for her writings on women in science. Her forthcoming book, Life After Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career, details th...
24 Feb 202157min
Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy
Brian Armstrong first recognized the potential of cryptocurrencies after witnessing firsthand the tragic consequences of hyperinflation in Argentina. Coinbase, the company he co-founded, aims to provi...
10 Feb 202154min
Benjamin Friedman on the Origins of Economic Belief
Benjamin Friedman has been a leading macroeconomist since the 1970s, whose accomplishments include writing 150 papers, producing more than dozen books, and teaching Tyler Cowen graduate macroeconomics...
27 Jan 20211h 7min
Noubar Afeyan on the Permission to Leap
"The world of innovation is very much one of toggling between survival and then thriving," says Noubar Afeyan. Co-founder of Moderna and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, the biomedical innovator, philanthr...
13 Jan 202155min
Conversations with Tyler 2020 Retrospective
Want to support the show? Visit conversationswithtyler.com/donate. On this special year-in-review episode, producer Jeff Holmes sat down with Tyler to talk about the most popular—and most underrated—...
30 Des 202053min
John O. Brennan on Life in the CIA
Want to support the show? Visit conversationswithtyler.com/donate. Growing up in a working-class city in New Jersey, John Brennan's father was an Irish immigrant who always impressed upon his childre...
16 Des 202058min
Zach Carter on the Life and Legacy of John Maynard Keynes
After reading Zach Carter's intellectual biography of Keynes earlier this year, Tyler declared that the book would qualify "without reservation" as one of the best of the year. Tyler's assessment pr...
2 Des 202054min
