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Tyler Cowen: belief

23 Aug 2023 Conversations with Tyler Celebrating Marginal Revolution's 20th Anniversary

“I think there’s a large number of excellent history books coming out, but they don’t make sense for book clubs.”

— Tyler Cowen

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Tyler Cowen
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belief
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23 Aug 2023
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Conversations with Tyler

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…All right. Why no more book clubs? The comments section is worse. I think we’re also not in an era of that many seminal books, so there aren’t books I’m tempted to cover. I think there’s a large number of excellent history books coming out, but they don’t make sense for book clubs. You need some theory in a book for it to fit into a book club, so that everyone can say something. What do you think is the last book that was even on the level of things like Human Action or the stuff that animated a lot of people in the last century?…

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