
Tyler Cowen Recommended Books
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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Working Backwards
Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
"One of the very best management books of recent times." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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Tim O’Reilly recommended this bookTim O’Reilly
"[The authors] dive deep into how Amazon has become the company to study if you want to succeed in 21st-century business." - Tim O’Reilly
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Austen Allred recommended this bookAusten Allred
"The best book I have read in a long time." - Austen Allred
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Marty Cagan recommended this bookMarty Cagan
Marty Cagan recommended this book on Twitter.
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The Infinite Machine
How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum
"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
"I think, is [the author's] very best, deepest, most subtle novel." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Station Eleven
"[The author's] biggest-selling book to date." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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3 people
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George R. R. Martin recommended this bookGeorge R. R. Martin
"Really blew me away." - George R. R. Martin
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Tim Urban recommended this bookTim Urban
"Should be required reading to remind everyone that we all live in an incredible magical utopic civilization." - Tim Urban
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Wicked City
The Many Cultures of Marseille
"Every city should have a good book about it, and now Marseille does." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Quarantined
Life and Death at William Head Station, 1872-1959
"British Columbia had a quarantine station that late, and this is its story." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
The Inside Story
"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
"Power, sex, dating, and romance, but surprisingly substantive." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
The Cure That Works
How to Have the World's Best Health Care -- at a Quarter of the Price
"A look at how to translate ideas from Singapore’s health care system into the United States." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
New Atlantis Revisited
"Imagine the Soviets trying to build a 'city of science,' and meeting problem after problem." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
The Origins of You
How Childhood Shapes Later Life
"Will prove one of the best and most important works of the last few years." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Very Important People
Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
"I loved this book." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Drink?
The New Science of Alcohol and Health
"A very good introduction to the growing body of evidence about the harms of alcohol, in all walks of life." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
The Idealist
Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World
"I could not help but crack open the cover and sample a few pages, and then I was hooked." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
The American Dream Is Not Dead
(But Populism Could Kill It)
"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)
When the President Calls
Conversations with Economic Policymakers
Tyler Cowen recommended this book in his blog. (Source)
Frank Ramsey
A Sheer Excess of Powers
"Thorough and useful, though not exciting to read." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Allah
God in the Qur’an
"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
"A wonderful book if you care about the lost pianos of Siberia and indeed I do." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Sketches of the Criminal World
Further Kolyma Stories
"The first third being remarkably moving and incisive as well." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Conviction Machine
Standing Up to Federal Prosecutorial Abuse
"A frank and brutal documentation of why you should never trust a prosecutor or speak to the FBI." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Spastic Diplegia--Bilateral Cerebral Palsy
Understanding the Motor Problems, Their Impact on Walking, and Management Throughout Life
"New and notable." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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1 person
Patrick Collison recommended this bookPatrick Collison
"Congrats, Mom!" - Patrick Collison
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Free to Move
Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom
"The best book on geographic mobility and exit that has been written to date." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Social Democratic Capitalism
" A very smart, well-written, well-argued book." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Sunnis and Shi'a
A Political History
"Captures the complexities, and in fact pulls the reader away from the usual tired dichotomy." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Children of Ash and Elm
A History of the Vikings
"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
"The book to read on Dante after you’ve read all the other books." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
The Bomb
Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
"Not a secret history, but it is a good general overall introduction to its chosen topic." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Fully Grown
Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success
"An excellent book on economic growth." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Leonhard Euler
Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment
"What a beautiful book." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
"One of the more important and more prophetic social science books of our time." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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Ryan Shea recommended this bookRyan Shea
Ryan Shea recommended this book on his website.
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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume I
Colonialism
"This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II
Control
"This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume III
Consociation and Confederation
"This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Generation Priced Out
Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America
"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)
Golden Gates
Fighting for Housing in America
"A very good book about the YIMBY movement and its struggles." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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1 person
Marc Andreessen recommended this bookMarc Andreessen
"On why we can't build in great American cities like San Francisco today and what we need to do about it." - Marc Andreessen
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The Industrialists
How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism
"Why don’t more books fit this model: take one topic and explain it well?" - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Economists
"Self-recommending." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
The Senkaku Paradox
Risking Great Power War Over Small Stakes
"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)
The Age of Entitlement
America Since the Sixties
"A very old thesis, but these days quite new." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Under the Influence
Putting Peer Pressure to Work
Tyler Cowen recommended this book in his blog. (Source)
The Decadent Society
How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
"Excellent book!" - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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2 people
Peter Thiel recommended this bookPeter Thiel
"Sets the stakes for the most urgent public debate of the 2020s: How do we get back to the future?" - Peter Thiel
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Fareed Zakaria recommended this bookFareed Zakaria
"Argues that Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump both represent the mood of our times." - Fareed Zakaria
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Confessions of a Sociopath
A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
"One of the most interesting parts of the memoir is how she reconciles being both a 'psychopath' and a Mormon..." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Cognitive Gadgets
The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
"Perhaps the most important general social science book in a good while." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
The Wizard and the Prophet
Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
"I loved [this book]." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
"Wonderful." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
The Ideas Industry
How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas
"Excellent." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Here Comes Everybody
The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
"About spontaneous order and decentralisation, and just how powerful the web can be." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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1 person
Ryan Holiday recommended this bookRyan Holiday
Ryan Holiday recommended this book on his blog.
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Individualism and Economic Order
"Has nothing to do with the internet per se, it’s really about decentralisation." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Everything Is Miscellaneous
The Power of the New Digital Disorder
"Brilliant, but I think it raises an important question." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Wikinomics
How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
"It basically says wikis work and wikis are important and wikis are the way of the future." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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Ryan Holiday recommended this bookRyan Holiday
Ryan Holiday recommended this book on his blog.
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The Book of Disquiet
"It’s really a book of meditations. It’s very philosophical." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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1 person
PewDiePie recommended this bookPewDiePie
"Amazing. Loved it." - PewDiePie
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The Glass Bead Game
A Novel
"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
Paul Stamets recommended this bookPaul Stamets
"One of my favorite books." - Paul Stamets
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The Founders
The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
"Illuminating." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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3 people
Walter Isaacson recommended this bookWalter Isaacson
"An indispensable guide to modern innovation and entrepreneurship." - Walter Isaacson
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Anthony Pompliano recommended this bookAnthony Pompliano
"Highly recommend anyone read [this book]." - Anthony Pompliano
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David Sacks recommended this bookDavid Sacks
"The story of PayPal." - David Sacks
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