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Conversations with Tyler

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.

Website ↗ Last published 28 October 2026 305 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Conversations with Tyler

“If I show you a building, I think you have a reaction to the building because of what you're exposed to and what you like and don't like. But if I could tell you the story of a building, I can make you fall in love with it. And then you see it. And then all of a sudden you see the merits, usually in its function, over your initial sort of take on its aesthetics.” — Roman Mars, Conversations with Tyler
Roman Mars · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“A lot of driving, on the highway in particular, is all designed around calming your brain so that you will go that fast, because humans are not evolved to go that fast. … Most people estimate when surveyed that a dash in a dividing line of a highway is two feet long, when in fact they're 10 to 15 feet long. And it is all there to calm your brain at going at high speeds so that you can go very fast and have it not freak you out.” — Roman Mars, Conversations with Tyler
Roman Mars · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“When Britain invaded Egypt in the 1880s, Gladstone had put 40% of his net worth into Egyptian bonds… they were yielding probably 12 to 14%. And he thought this was a great buy. And it proved to be a fantastic investment because he invaded Egypt. Britain insisted that the Egyptian pay off their bonds at par.” — Liaquat Ahamed, Conversations with Tyler
Liaquat Ahamed · 14 Oct 2026 Listen →
“She sees every one of her IT people more productive. She looks at the productivity of the overall IT department. Nothing happens. And quote, she said to us, I think they are smoking the productivity gains in the corridor.” — Luis Garicano, Conversations with Tyler
Luis Garicano · 30 Sep 2026 Listen →
“What we've seen through past cycles of automation is that something like 85% of automation-related job losses happen in the first year of recessions.” — Gita Gopinath, Conversations with Tyler
Gita Gopinath · 23 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Conversations with Tyler is hosted by Tyler Cowen and Shruti Rajagopalan .

Recent Episodes

  1. 28 Oct 2026

    Roman Mars on Flags, Phones, and the Design of Everyday Life

    With Roman Mars

  2. 14 Oct 2026

    Liaquat Ahamed on Financial Crises, Gold, and the Lessons of 1873

    With Liaquat Ahamed

  3. 30 Sep 2026

    Luis Garicano on Spain, Europe, and the Future of Work

    With Luis Garicano

  4. 23 Sep 2026

    Gita Gopinath on Trade, Currencies, and Economic Transformation

    With Gita Gopinath

  5. 16 Sep 2026

    Annie Lowrey on the Time Tax, Fraud, and Rationing by Paperwork

    With Annie Lowrey

  6. 9 Sep 2026

    Jared Diamond on Leaders, Luck, and Irreplaceability

    With Jared Diamond

  7. 2 Sep 2026

    Michael Moritz on Origin Stories, Exile, and Obsessive Curiosity

    With Michael Moritz

  8. 19 Aug 2026

    Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Catholicism, and the Age of Social Contagion

    With Luke Burgis

  9. 12 Aug 2026

    Daron Acemoglu on Liberalism, Automation, and the Educated Elite

    With Daron Acemoglu

  10. 5 Aug 2026

    Julia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy

    With Julia Ioffe

  11. 22 Jul 2026

    Andrew Graham-Dixon on Vermeer, a Forgotten Sect, and Underrated Artists

    With Andrew Graham-Dixon

  12. 15 Jul 2026

    Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy

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Guests

Jeff Holmes (5 episodes), Ezra Klein (4 episodes), Russ Roberts (4 episodes), Fuchsia Dunlop (3 episodes), Nate Silver (3 episodes), Ross Douthat (3 episodes), Daniel Gross (2 episodes), Neal Stephenson (2 episodes), Peter Thiel (2 episodes), Cass Sunstein (2 episodes), Vitalik Buterin (2 episodes), Claudia Goldin (2 episodes), and 266 more.