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Conversations with Tyler

Bruno Maçães on the Spirit of Adventure

Conversations with Tyler

Conversations with Tyler

Society & Culture, Education

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Political scientist Bruno Maçães has built a career out of crossing the globe teaching, advising, writing, and talking to people. His recent book, born out of a six-month journey across Eurasia, is one of Tyler's favorites.

So how does it feel to face Tyler's rat-a-tat curiosity about your life's work? For Bruno, the experience was "like you are a politician under attack and your portfolio is the whole of physical and metaphysical reality."

Listen to this episode to discover how well Bruno defended that expansive portfolio, including what's missing from liberalism, Obama's conceptual foreign policy mistake, what economists are most wrong about, how to fall in love with Djibouti, stagnation in Europe, the diversity of Central Asia, Hitchcock's perfect movie, China as an ever-growing global force, the book everyone under 25 should read, the creativity of Washington, D.C versus Silicon Valley, and more.

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Recorded September 3rd, 2018

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Conversations with Tyler is produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University,

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bridging the gap between academic ideas and real world problems.

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Learn more at mercatus.org.

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And for more conversations, including videos, transcripts, and upcoming dates, visit

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ConversationsWithTyler.com.

1:34.3

I'm here today with Bruno Mishayesh, who is Senior Advisor at Flint Global, but also more

1:39.6

prominently author of The Dawn of Eurasia on the Trail of the New World Order, one of

1:45.3

my favorite books of the last few years.

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