Tyler Cowen Book Recommendations
Tyler Cowen is an American economist.
(Read more on Wikipedia)54 Books Recommended
The Decadent Society
How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
by Ross Gregory Douthat
"Excellent book!" - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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Fully Grown
Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success
by Dietrich Vollrath
"An excellent book on economic growth." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Leonhard Euler
Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment
by Ronald S. Calinger
"What a beautiful book." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume I
Colonialism
by Brendan O'Leary
"This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II
Control
by Brendan O'Leary
"This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume III
Consociation and Confederation
by Brendan O'Leary
"This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Generation Priced Out
Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America
by Randy Shaw
"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
by Conor Dougherty
"A very good book about the YIMBY movement and its struggles." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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The Industrialists
How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism
by Jennifer A. Delton
"Why don’t more books fit this model: take one topic and explain it well?" - Tyler Cowen (Source)
The Senkaku Paradox
Risking Great Power War Over Small Stakes
by Michael E. O'Hanlon
"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
by Christopher Caldwell
"A very old thesis, but these days quite new." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Under the Influence
Putting Peer Pressure to Work
by Robert H. Frank
Tyler Cowen recommended this book in his blog. (Source)
The Bomb
Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
by Fred M. Kaplan
"Not a secret history, but it is a good general overall introduction to its chosen topic." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Confessions of a Sociopath
A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
by M.E. Thomas
"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
by Cecilia Heyes
"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
by Charles C. Mann
"I loved [this book]." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
by James C. Scott
"Wonderful." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
The Ideas Industry
How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas
by Daniel W. Drezner
"Excellent." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Here Comes Everybody
The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
by Clay Shirky
"About spontaneous order and decentralisation, and just how powerful the web can be." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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Individualism and Economic Order
by F. A. Hayek
"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
by David Weinberger
"Brilliant, but I think it raises an important question." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Wikinomics
How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
by Don Tapscott
"It basically says wikis work and wikis are important and wikis are the way of the future." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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The Glass Bead Game
A Novel
by Hermann Hesse
"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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The Founders
The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
by Jimmy Soni
"Illuminating." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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The American Dream Is Not Dead
(But Populism Could Kill It)
by Michael R. Strain
"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)
The Infinite Machine
How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum
by Camila Russo
"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
A Novel
by Emily St. John Mandel
"I think, is [the author's] very best, deepest, most subtle novel." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Station Eleven
A Novel
by Emily St. John Mandel
"[The author's] biggest-selling book to date." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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Wicked City
The Many Cultures of Marseille
by Nicholas Hewitt
"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
by Peter Johnson
"British Columbia had a quarantine station that late, and this is its story." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
The Inside Story
by Steven Levy
"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)
The Cure That Works
How to Have the World's Best Health Care -- at a Quarter of the Price
by Sean Masaki Flynn
"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)
The Origins of You
How Childhood Shapes Later Life
by Jay Belsky
"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
by Ashley Mears
"I loved this book." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Drink?
The New Science of Alcohol and Health
by Professor David Nutt
"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
by Samuel Zipp
"I could not help but crack open the cover and sample a few pages, and then I was hooked." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Working Backwards
Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
by Colin Bryar
"One of the very best management books of recent times." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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When the President Calls
Conversations with Economic Policymakers
by Simon W. Bowmaker
Tyler Cowen recommended this book in his blog. (Source)
Frank Ramsey
A Sheer Excess of Powers
by Cheryl Misak
"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)
Sketches of the Criminal World
Further Kolyma Stories
by Varlam Shalamov
"The first third being remarkably moving and incisive as well." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Conviction Machine
Standing Up to Federal Prosecutorial Abuse
by Harvey A. Silverglate
"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
by Lily Collison
"New and notable." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
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Free to Move
Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom
by Ilya Somin
"The best book on geographic mobility and exit that has been written to date." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Social Democratic Capitalism
by Lane Kenworthy
" A very smart, well-written, well-argued book." - Tyler Cowen (Source)
Sunnis and Shi'a
A Political History
by Laurence Louër
"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
by Neil S. Price
"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)
