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New ep!
@kylascan
and
@tylercowen
explore whether fantasy world-building can help you understand economics, what she learned trading options at 16, why she opted for a state school over the Ivy League, introversion as an ingredient for social media success, what conspiracy
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New episode!
@michael_nielsen
joins
@tylercowen
to discuss the beauty of the universe, quantum computing, Simone Weil, finding good collaborators, and...the status of linear algebra?
COWEN: Is the status of linear algebra rising?
NIELSEN: [laughs] That’s a great question. It
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Peter Thiel returns! Our very first guest is joining us again for special live show with
@tylercowen
in Miami.
They plan to discuss political theology, Shakespeare, and how Christianity shapes Peter’s view of history, and more.
Join us!
Details and registration 👉
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Bourdain was on our wishlist since the beginning of the series. His view of the world was entirely his own, earned and learned through reading, eating, traveling, and listening.
Here’s a collection of his insights from past interviews. RIP.
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New episode! Our very first
@cowenconvos
guest,
@peterthiel
, joins
@tylercowen
for a deep dive into complexities of political theology.
In this clip, Peter sounds the alarm about Calvinism, rationalism, and other ideologies that can lead us to distrust our own agency to solve
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New Release! Nobel laureate and renowned
#psychologist
Daniel Kahneman joins
@tylercowen
for a
#CowenConvos
on happiness, memory, the replication crisis in psychology, advice to CEOs about improving decision-making, and much more:
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.
@Kasparov63
on why dictatorships like Russia are often the most aggressive and dangerous:
#CowenConvos
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Why is it that so many of the most popular podcasts are relatively long?
@RubinReport
has a theory:
#CowenConvos
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Exciting announcement!
@tylercowen
sat down today for a conversation with
@paulkrugman
. Be on the lookout in October for this episode of
#CowenConvos
.
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New ep!
@paulbloomatyale
and
@tylercowen
explore whether psychologists understand day-to-day human behavior any better than normal folk, how babies can tell if you’re a jerk, at what age children have the capacity to believe in God, why the trend in religion is toward monotheism,
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New episode!
@JonHaidt
is back on the podcast to chat about his latest book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.
Haidt blames the rise of teen mental illness since the early 2010s on the shift from a "play-based
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New episode! Vishy Anand (
@vishy64theking
) sat down in Chennai with
@tylercowen
to discuss his breakthrough 1991 tournament win in Reggio Emilia, his technique for defeating Kasparov in rapid play, dealing with distraction during a match, and more:
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In his second appearance on the show,
@NateSilver538
and
@tylercowen
tackle how coin flips solve status quo bias, gambling’s origins in divination, what kinds of betting Nate would ban, why he’s been limited on several of the New York sports betting sites, whether poker players
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New episode! Geopolitical strategist Velina Tchakarova (
@vtchakarova
) joined
@tylercowen
for a globe-trotting conversation starting with the Balkans and with stops in Russia, China, North Korea, the Middle East, and more.
Unlike many analysts, Velina does not believe China will
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🔥 New episode! 🔥
@audreyt
is an autodidact, conservative anarchist, & digital minister of Taiwan. Tune in to their conversation with
@tylercowen
on Chinese literature, radical transparency, how social & digital tech can promote democracy, & more:
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New episode! Coleman Hughes (
@coldxman
) joins
@tylercowen
to discuss his new book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America.
Does ‘X-blindness’ make sense with traits other than race?
COWEN: Let me try another hypothetical on you. You might ask, “Should we
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.
@Martina
joined
@nytimes
to talk human rights, Wimbledon, and being a "beacon of hope" for many gay Americans:
#ThursdayThoughts
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New episode! Historian
@holland_tom
joins
@tylercowen
to discuss the political differences between Paul and Jesus, why America is more pro-technology than Europe, why Herodotus is his favorite writer, and more:
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The "godfather of economics podcasting"
@EconTalker
took the guest chair this week to have a conversation with
@tylercowen
on where classical liberalism has gone wrong, the Bible, biases, and much more:
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New bonus episode! In this interview, recorded at
@a16z
’s 2024 American Dynamism Summit,
@tylercowen
and Marc Andreessen (
@pmarca
) engage in a rapid-fire dialogue about the future of AI:
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.
@tylercowen
: How has Canada changed the most since you moved there?
@tobi
: It feels like it’s the optimism angle, and I think this is the thing that worries me the most. Canada had a massively underappreciated — at the time — project in multiculturalism that worked. It started
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New episode!
@JosephEStiglitz
joined
@tylercowen
for a discussion that weaves through Joe’s career and key contributions, including what he learned from giving an eight-hour lecture in Japan, how being a debater influenced his intellectual development, why he tried to abolish
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New episode!
@DrNathanNunn
joined
@tylercowen
to discuss why so many Africans live in harder to settle areas, his predictions for the effects of Chinese development on East Africa, what’s missing from most economic graduate programs, & more:
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New episode!
@PTetlock
joined
@tylercowen
to discuss the qualities that make good forecasters, whether the world as a whole is becoming harder to predict, his research on counterfactuals, and more:
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John Bates Clark medalist Melissa Dell joined
@tylercowen
for our 100th episode! They discuss her work on how geography & cultural persistence affect economic development, if SATs are useful, the joys of long-distance running, & more:
#100cowenconvos
🥳
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New episode! Harvard professor Claudia Goldin (
@PikaGoldin
) joined
@tylercowen
to discuss the US gender earnings gap, what’s behind falling marriage rates for those without a college degree, why she’s skeptical about happiness research, and more:
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New episode!
@stewartbrand
joined
@tylercowen
to discuss what drives his curiosity, how he became a Darwinian decentralist, why L.A. could not have been the home of hippie culture and digital innovation, & more:
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We have an exciting announcement! Next year, renowned author, activist, and literary critic
@MargaretAtwood
will join
@tylercowen
for a
#CowenConvo
. In the meantime, watch this season of The Handmaid's Tale and sign up for our email list to prepare:
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Happy birthday to the guy who understands the practicality of Ecuadorian wool,
@tylercowen
!
🎉🎂🦙🥳🥂
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Thanks to everyone who made it another fantastic year 🤓
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Wow.
@nntaleb
is our fasted downloaded episode ever. You all are really into learning about Maronites!
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Alan Taylor is
@tylercowen
’s pick for one of the greatest living historians. His many books cover the early American Republic, American westward expansion, the War of 1812, slavery in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, the revolutionary settlements in Maine, and more.
COWEN: Under the
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@tylercowen
: Your view that there’s too much empathy — you wrote a book called Against Empathy — what emotion in you does that come from? For me, it comes from frustration with other people. I hold that same view, but I feel it’s rooted in my emotions as much as my reason. I then
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The upcoming conversation between
@EconTalker
and
@tylercowen
on COVID-19 will be livestreamed on the
@mercatus
YouTube channel at 11 AM (EST) this Wednesday, 3/18.
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Which Conversations with Tyler guest is your intellectual doppelgänger? Take our short quiz to find out, then share your results using
#CowenConvos
to be entered to win an exclusive swag bag.
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New episode! Niall Ferguson (
@nfergus
) joined
@tylercowen
to discuss which side of the Glorious Revolution he would have been on, why the British Empire is underrated, Tocqueville’s insights on liberalism, & more:
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The "godfather of economics podcasting"
@EconTalker
took the guest chair this week to have a conversation with
@tylercowen
on where classical liberalism has gone wrong, the Bible, biases, and much more:
#ThursdayThoughts
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"At heart, the book tackles a much deeper question: Why do you do what you do?" A review of
@BenSasse
's new book:
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NYC listeners: Please join us for an official meetup with
@tylercowen
in Manhattan! Meet Tyler, the CWTeam, and of course your fellow listeners. Our last one in SF was a lot of fun!
📅 Feb 5
🕕 6:00- 8:00 PM
📍Essex Restaurant on Rivington
Register:
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"First of all, I don't believe at all that everything happens for a reason."
#wednesdaywisdom
from
@RabbiWolpe
:
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Coming Wednesday: a partial refutation of this tweet.
Coming Tuesday:
@mattyglesias
comes on the Neoliberal Podcast to discuss his new book One Billion Americans. This is the ONLY* podcast appearance he is making during his book tour.
*(technically this may not be, strictly speaking, true)
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New episode! In her third appearance on the show, Chinese food expert
@fuchsiadunlop
joins
@tylercowen
and a group of special guests to celebrate the release of her new book exploring the history, philosophy, and techniques of Chinese culinary culture:
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New episode!
@JohnHMcWhorter
joined Tyler to discuss the reason Mandarin won’t overtake English as the lingua franca, how the Vikings shaped modern English, whether reparations are a good idea, Harold Arlen vs. Andrew Lloyd Webber, & more:
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New episode! Jennifer Burns (
@profburns
) and
@tylercowen
start by discussing how her new portrait of Milton Friedman caused her to reassess him. They then discuss Jennifer’s previous work on Ayn Rand, including whether Rand was a good screenwriter:
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New episode! Thomas Piketty (
@PikettyLeMonde
) joined
@tylercowen
to discuss the beginning of the end of aristocratic society, how public education drives economic development, the relationship between wealth and cultural capital, and more:
#cowenconvos
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.
@EconTalker
on
#CowenConvos
: "We romanticize science a great deal, & I think we romanticize the objectivity of academics & researchers. They have their own pet theories, fads, reputations. It’s very hard to do science. It’s very hard to do good science."
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New bonus episode! In this conversation,
@tylercowen
uses ChatGPT to interview Jonathan Swift about his views on religion, politics, economics, and literature:
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Well looked what showed up at the
@mercatus
office today.
Contain your jealousy!
@tylercowen
@patrickc
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Wishing you all an immeasurably good weekend. 😎
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New episode! Professor of economics at UC Berkley and OG econ blogger
@delong
joins
@tylercowen
to discuss what Keynes got wrong, what Hayek got right, whether the middle-income trap persists, and more:
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New episode!
@FareedZakaria
joined
@tylercowen
to discuss what made his father lean towards socialism, why the Bengali intelligentsia is so left-wing, what’s stuck with him from his time at an Anglican school, and much more.
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"You don’t want to get to the place where you’re physically an adult and you have no moral sense"—
@BenSasse
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New episode! Sam Bankman-Fried (
@SBF_FTX
) joined
@tylercowen
to discuss the secret to his trading success, why a legal mind is crucial when thinking about cryptocurrencies, the real constraints in the effective altruism space, and more:
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New episode!
@cblatts
joined
@tylercowen
to discuss the informal norms that restrain nations, the breakdown of elite bargains in Ethiopia, the relationship between high state capacity and war, Putin’s centralized motives for invading Ukraine, and more:
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New episode! John Gray, philosopher and renowned writer, sat down with
@tylercowen
to discuss his latest book, including who he thinks will carry on his work, what young people should learn if liberalism is dead, what he makes of UFOs, and more:
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New episode! Amia Srinivasan (
@amiasrinivasan
) joined
@tylercowen
to discuss why progress requires regress, the feminist critique of the role of consent in sex, the anarchic strain in her philosophy, and more:
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New episode!
@daronacemogIu
joined
@tylercowen
to discuss drivers of economic growth, the institutional reasons that China’s state capacity and control has increased with its wealth, his latest book, & more:
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New bonus episode! Record producer
@RickRubin
joined
@tylercowen
to discuss whether AI will write good songs, how to listen (to music and people), why pro wrestling is the most accurate representation of life, and more:
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Indian Muslims have avoided radicalization, voting secular over Islamic parties. India's diversity & Hinduism's tolerance have allowed Islam to integrate peacefully since the 11th century, despite proximity to Pakistan & Afghanistan. Hear this and more from
@FareedZakaria
.
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New episode!
@BrazilBrian
has been tracking the struggles and triumphs of Latin America for more than 20 years.
Together Brian and
@tylercowen
discuss the politics and economics of nearly every country from the equator down. They cover the future of migration into Brazil, what
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We hosted a live Conversations with Tyler this week in Miami all about political theology at
@ArshtCenter
with
@peterthiel
. Thank you to those who attended. If you missed this one, fear not! The episode will be releasing this April.
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New episode releasing tomorrow! Can you guess the guest?
-Tyler calls him one of the most important & influential philosophers
-He is known for being a leader of the Effective Altruism Movement
-His book releasing later this month argues for longtermism
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It's time for a CWT book club! In this special episode,
@tylercowen
chats with
@JerusalemDemsas
to discuss three books: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, and Of Boys and Men by Richard V. Reeves:
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Thanks to all the women on the
#CowenConvos
team for everything you do to make the show a success!
#WomensHistoryMonth
@tylercowen
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New episode! David Deutsch (
@DavidDeutschOxf
) joined
@tylercowen
to discuss the metaphysics of Star Trek transporters, what geological strata can illustrate to us about the nature of “splitting” universes, what Western science needs most, & more:
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#tbt
to
@tylercowen
’s conversation with
@VitalikButerin
on cryptoeconomics, his desire for more social science fiction, the best ways to value crypto assets, & more:
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New episode!
@willmacaskill
joined
@tylercowen
to discuss why the effective altruism movement has gained so much traction, his favorite inefficient charity, whether he’d side w/ aliens over humans, if starting a university might be on his slate, & more.
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Can economists and humanists be friends?
@tylercowen
's
#CowenConvo
with
@robinhanson
cited in
@NewYorker
:
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New episode! Renowned ultramarathon runner and designer, Lazarus Lake, chats with
@tylercowen
about why so many STEM professionals do ultramarathons, which skill holds people back the most, what accounting taught him about running, and more:
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Thank you to everyone who came to our NYC listener meetup last night. We had a blast and hope you did, too!
@tylercowen
@Jeff_Holmes
@FloerIt
@Sam_Alburger
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Join
@tylercowen
and special guest
@sama
on Monday, January 28th for a live recording of
#CowenConvos
in San Francisco. Have a drink, meet fellow fans, and hear the conversation Tyler wants to have with Sam:
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New episode! Byron Auguste joined
@tylercowen
to discuss why IQ is overrated and conscientiousness is underrated, the major opportunity gap in on-the-job training, the incentive problems in higher education, and more.
#cowenconvos
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Listeners like you: Underrated.
Happy holidays from the
#cowenconvos
team! Wishing you all things merry and bright.✨
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.
@asteroid_saku
: "Tyler Cowen depicts a new economy 'business' instead as a mini-subculture within civil society, with its own unique philosophy, relationships and memetic structure." Get your copy of Tyler's new book, "Big Business," today:
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New episode!
@MargRev
's co-founders
@tylercowen
and
@ATabarrok
reflect on the blog's legacy with long-time readers
@VitalikButerin
,
@bencasnocha
, and
@Jeff_Holmes
:
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New episode! Noam Chomsky joins
@tylercowen
to discuss good and bad evolutionary approaches to language, what he thinks Stephen Wolfram gets wrong about LLMs, whether he’s optimistic about the future, and more:
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On V.S. Naipaul:
Moser: V.S. Naipaul — he’s probably the most symbolic figure in my head. He’s the person that occupies the most space of all the people I’ve known. He is an almost oedipal figure for me, a father figure, someone that I knew very well when I was younger. I
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New episode!
@GarettJones
joined
@tylercowen
to discuss his new book, his proposals for more limited democracy, what studying to be a sommelier taught him about economics, & more:
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.
@michaelpollan
: "Meditation is really hard work to get to a kind of consciousness that you can get to pretty quickly with psychedelics."
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New episode!
@pmarca
joined
@tylercowen
to discuss Twitter as an X-ray machine on public figures, the civilization-level changes made possible by remote work, Peter Thiel’s secret to attracting talent, & more:
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Out Today! Chief economist at
@Google
& emeritus professor at
@UCBerkeley
Hal Varian joins
@tylercowen
for a new
#CowenConvos
on the economics of sales, his hiring criteria, the sack of Rome, what people are least likely to understand about Google, & more:
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New episode! Marilynne Robinson, one of America’s best and best-known novelists and essayists, joined
@tylercowen
to discuss the relatable qualities of major biblical figures, how to contend with the Bible’s seeming contradictions, and more:
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"It’s very difficult to reduce it to any single traits, because a lot of what you’re looking for, are these almost Zen-like opposites." — Peter Thiel on what he looks for in an employee:
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New episode! Barkha Dutt (
@BDUTT
) joined
@tylercowen
to discuss how Westerners can gain a more complete picture of India, why relations between Hindus and Muslims seem to be worsening, the best city for Indian food, and more:
#cowenconvos
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New episode! Producer
@Jeff_Holmes
sat down with
@tylercowen
to talk about the past year on the show, including one episode’s appearance on Ancient Aliens, Tyler’s picks for most underrated guests, listener questions, and more:
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New episode! Stanford professor & productivity expert Nick Bloom joined
@tylercowen
for a conversation about which areas of science are making progress, the factors that have made research more expensive, why government should invest more in R&D, & more:
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New episode!
@NoubarAfeyan
joined
@tylercowen
to discuss the illusion of the exceptional, the future of gene editing, how thinking future-backward shapes his approach to business and philanthropy, Lebanese optimism, and more.
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@sullydish
And check out this article to see why
@tylercowen
considers him the most influential public intellectual of their generation:
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Reminder that
@tylercowen
will be going live soon with
@EconTalker
to discuss COVID-19. The audio of their conversation will be available tomorrow as an episode on both EconTalk and our podcast.
The upcoming conversation between
@EconTalker
and
@tylercowen
on COVID-19 will be livestreamed on the
@mercatus
YouTube channel at 11 AM (EST) this Wednesday, 3/18.
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Noubar Afeyan explains his systematic approach to making "exceptional" breakthroughs on the latest episode of
#cowenconvos
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