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Tyler Cowen has recommended 54 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.

Tyler Cowen is an American economist.

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54 Books Recommended

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"One of the very best management books of recent times." - Tyler Cowen (Source)

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"Yes, this is the story of Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum. Very useful, and I am glad there is now a good book on this topic." - Tyler Cowen (Source)

The Glass Hotel

by Emily St John Mandel
"I think, is [the author's] very best, deepest, most subtle novel." - Tyler Cowen (Source)

Station Eleven

by Emily St John Mandel
"[The author's] biggest-selling book to date." - Tyler Cowen (Source)

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3 people
"Every city should have a good book about it, and now Marseille does." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"British Columbia had a quarantine station that late, and this is its story." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"Probably the best history of the company were are going to get, at least for the earlier years of the company." - Tyler Cowen (Source)

The Power Notebooks

by Katie Roiphe
"Power, sex, dating, and romance, but surprisingly substantive." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"A look at how to translate ideas from Singapore’s health care system into the United States." - Tyler Cowen (Source)

New Atlantis Revisited

by Paul R. Josephson
"Imagine the Soviets trying to build a 'city of science,' and meeting problem after problem." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"Will prove one of the best and most important works of the last few years." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"A very good introduction to the growing body of evidence about the harms of alcohol, in all walks of life." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"I could not help but crack open the cover and sample a few pages, and then I was hooked." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"Just how good or bad are things in America right now? [This book] is the most balanced and informative take on this question you are likely to see." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Tyler Cowen recommended this book in his blog. (Source)
"Thorough and useful, though not exciting to read." - Tyler Cowen (Source)

Allah

God in the Qur’an

by Gabriel Said Reynolds
"A very good treatment of what it promises, with an emphasis on the concept of mercy in Islam." - Tyler Cowen (Source)

Lost Pianos of Siberia

by Sophy Roberts
"A wonderful book if you care about the lost pianos of Siberia and indeed I do." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"The first third being remarkably moving and incisive as well." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"A frank and brutal documentation of why you should never trust a prosecutor or speak to the FBI." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"New and notable." - Tyler Cowen (Source)

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"The best book on geographic mobility and exit that has been written to date." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
" A very smart, well-written, well-argued book." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"Captures the complexities, and in fact pulls the reader away from the usual tired dichotomy." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"I have only browsed this book, yet it appears to have much more information about the Vikings than other books I know." - Tyler Cowen (Source)

Dante

by John Took
"The book to read on Dante after you’ve read all the other books." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"Not a secret history, but it is a good general overall introduction to its chosen topic." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"An excellent book on economic growth." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"What a beautiful book." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"One of the more important and more prophetic social science books of our time." - Tyler Cowen (Source)

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"This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"A YIMBY book, with good historical material on San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other locales involved in the struggle to build more." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"A very good book about the YIMBY movement and its struggles." - Tyler Cowen (Source)

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1 person
  • Marc Andreessen recommended this book
"Why don’t more books fit this model: take one topic and explain it well?" - Tyler Cowen (Source)

Economists

by Robert M. Solow
"Self-recommending." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"About what options a U.S. government would have — short of full war — to deal with international grabs by China or Russia." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"A very old thesis, but these days quite new." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Tyler Cowen recommended this book in his blog. (Source)
"Excellent book!" - Tyler Cowen (Source)

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  • Peter Thiel recommended this book
  • Fareed Zakaria recommended this book
"One of the most interesting parts of the memoir is how she reconciles being both a 'psychopath' and a Mormon..." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"Perhaps the most important general social science book in a good while." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"About spontaneous order and decentralisation, and just how powerful the web can be." - Tyler Cowen (Source)

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"Has nothing to do with the internet per se, it’s really about decentralisation." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"Brilliant, but I think it raises an important question." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
"It basically says wikis work and wikis are important and wikis are the way of the future." - Tyler Cowen (Source)

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1 person

The Book of Disquiet

by Fernando Pessoa
"It’s really a book of meditations. It’s very philosophical." - Tyler Cowen (Source)

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1 person
"About the beauty of organised structures and how we play them in game-like fashion and how much they entrance us." - Tyler Cowen (Source)

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1 person
"Illuminating." - Tyler Cowen (Source)

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3 people

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