![]() Unlike the gentle meanderings of other intellectual shows such as In Our Time, this podcast is a one-hour-long bracing interrogation of some of the world’s smartest people by one very smart man. His podcast - Conversations with Tyler - is certainly not one to be listened to hungover. He says he’s ‘with the Mormons’ on alcohol, and thinks it would be better if we all just didn’t drink: we’d be a smarter species for it. How does one man have all this intellectual energy? Perhaps it’s the lack of booze. This is a one-hour-long interrogation of some of the world’s smartest people by one very smart man It sounds slightly esoteric, but state-capacity libertarianism is the ideology that could have reigned supreme in the UK had Dominic Cummings’s stay in Downing Street been longer. His views? He has described himself as a ‘state-capacity libertarian’ - he’s incredibly pro-growth, favourable towards immigration, and a supporter of same-sex marriage, as well as a fan of state-led ‘megaprojects’. ![]() You wonder how he has the time to eat, though he is also an acclaimed food author who has written dining guides and runs his own ‘ethnic dining’ blog. He recently confessed that the only thing he’s not really interested in is geology (still, he said he’s fascinated by the role of the Massif Central in French history). At any time of his choosing, Tyler pops into your inbox to show you a new study he’s found (‘which words do men use more than women?’), tips for getting better at watching films (‘get a mentor!’) or news from Norwegian sex resorts. His Marginal Revolution blog is not for the faint of mind: he sends up to 40 emails each week. ![]() He goes through ‘five or ten books’ a day. But his intellectual interests are staggering in scope, enough to unsettle. Harris chair in the economics department at George Mason University, and the co-host of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution. Tyler Cowen is a man who leaves you at once in awe and perturbed. ![]()
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