Tyler Cowen (economist)

Works:

Recommendations:

• China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival

• Douglas Irwin, Clashing Over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy.

• Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

• Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, Bewilderments: Reflections on the Book of Numbers

• David Olusoga, Black and British: A Forgotten History

• Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

• Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls

• The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman, by Davi Kopenawa

• Victor Davis Hanson, The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict was Fought and Won

• Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

• David B. Roberts, Qatar: Securing the Global Ambitions of a City-State

• Philip Dwyer, Napoleon: Passion, Death, and Resurrection, 1815-1849

• The Gene: An Intimate History

• R. Taggart Murphy, Japan and the Shackles of the Past

• Pierre Razoux, The Iran-Iraq War

• Arthur M. Melzer, Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing

• Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life

• The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)

• David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

• Diane Coffey and Dean Spears, Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development, and the Costs of Caste

• Ian Bostridge, Schubert’s Winter Journey

• Martin Gurri, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium.

• Melancholy, by László F. Földényi

• Stephen Kotkin, Stalin, vol. 1

• How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region (Hardcover)

• Mike Wallace, Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919

• Landmarks, Robert Macfarlane

• Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

• Victor Sebestyen, Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

• Charles C. Mann, The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World

• Robert Tombs, The English and Their History

• The Transformation of the World

• Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras, and Ella Morton, Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders

• Timothy Snyder, Black Earth

• Mastering ‘Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effec

• Jan Swafford, Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph

• Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life

• Benedict Anderson, A Life Beyond Boundaries

• Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy

• Sebastian Strangio, Hun Sen’s Cambodia

• Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

• Richard H. Thaler, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

• The Rise and the Fall of the American Growth

• The Idea Factory - Summary by FourMinuteBooks

• Richard White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

• Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman

• Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

• Laurent Dubois, Haiti: The Aftershocks of History

• Varun Sivaram’s Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

• Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

• James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

• Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

• Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell, The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins

• Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: From Grantham to the Falklands

• Rob Sheffield, Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World

• The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

• Dennis C. Rasmussen, The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

• Guantánamo Diary, by Mohamedou Ould Slahi

• Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House

• Ben H. Shepherd, Hitler’s Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich

• War from the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics

• Richard O. Prum, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World — And Us

• A History of Future Cities

• Bryan Caplan, The Case Against Education

• Peter Parker, Housman Country: Into the Heart of England

• Tim Harford, Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy

• Julian Gewirtz, Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China

• Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

• Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (Hardcover)

• John F. Pfaff, Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform

• Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, Space X, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

• Odd Arne Westad, Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750

• Srinath Raghavan, India’s War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia

• Peter Laurence, Becoming Jane Jacobs

• Michael Meyer, In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China

• Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends Through the Great War

• David Edgerton, The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth Century History

• Allen C. Guelzo, Reconstruction: A Concise History

• Scott Sumner, The Midas Paradox

• The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion

• Christopher Goscha, The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam

• Dani Rodrik, Economics Rules

• Andrew Scott Cooper, The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran

• The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945

• Tim Harford, Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

• David Eimer, The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China

• Jonathan Rottenberg, The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

• The Normans: From Raiders to Kings

• Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State

• Jean Lucey Pratt, A Notable Woman

• The Rebirth of Education: Schooling Ain't Learning

• Daniel P. Todes, Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science

• The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run-or Ruin-an Economy

• Michael Dirda, On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling

• Tyler Cowen, Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals

• Marie Kondo, Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying

• Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People

• Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

• Lyndal Roper, Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

• Skin In The Game - Summary by FourMinuteBooks

• Emily Dufton, Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America

• David Hackett Fischer, Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States

• James Fallows, China Airborne

• Nick Chater, The Mind is Flat: The Illusion of Mental Depth and the Improvised Mind

• Jean M. Twenge, iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy — and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood

• Peter H. Wilson, Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire

• Greg Woolf, Rome: An Empire’s Story

• Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy

• Coming Apart: The State of White America

• John Keay, Midnight’s Descendants: A History of South Asia since Partition

• Daniel W. Drezner, The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas

• Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris

• New Museums in China

• The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate

• Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy

• The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future

• Kerry Brown, CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping

• Cecilia Heyes, Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

• Mary Gaitskill, Somebody with a Little Hammer, Essays

• Greg Ip, Foolproof: Why Safety Can be Dangerous, and How Danger Makes Us Safe

• Sujatha Gidla, Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

• Garett Jones, The Hive Mind

• Benjamin Britten: A Life for Music

• Affordable Excellence: The Singapore Healthcare Story

• The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and The Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life

• Tom Bissell, Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve.

• William Domnarski, Richard Posner

• George Dyson, Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

• David Garrow, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama

• Porochista Khakpour, Sick: A Memoir

• Neil M. Maher, Apollo in the Age of Aquarius

• Emmanuel Todd, Who is Charlie

• W.J. Rorabaugh, Prohibition: A Concise History

• Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight (Hardcover)

• Francesca Lidia Viano’s Sentinel: The Unlikely Origins of the Statue of Liberty

• Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon, Continental Drift: Britain and Europe from the End of Empire to the Rise of Euroscepticism

• David Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here

• So who wins