Tyler Cowen on Reading

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🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Intellectual omnivore Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts talk about their reading habits, their favorite books, and the pile of books on their nightstands right now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is March 9, 2022.
0:39.4	My guest is Tyler Cowan.
0:40.8	This is Tyler's 15th appearance on the program.
0:43.7	We're doing something a little unusual today.
0:45.4	We're having a conversation, less of an interview, about our reading habits in response
0:49.6	to a tweet from Noam Shapiro asking, how will I choose what to read?
0:54.3	How do I read?
0:55.3	I thought there could be no one better to discuss that with than Tyler, who I think
0:59.0	reads more than just about anyone.
1:01.8	Tyler, welcome back to econtalk.
1:04.0	Happy to be here, Russ.
1:05.2	I want to remind listeners, if you read a book a week, you'll probably read about 2500
1:08.9	books a year in your lifetime.
1:12.4	That's a small number.
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