Tyler Cowen's Book Recommendations

"One of the very best management books of recent times."

"One of the very best management books of recent times:"

"British Columbia had a quarantine station that late, and this is its story. Leprosy, smallpox, and meningitis are a few of the drivers of the narrative. It continues to startle me how much pandemics and quarantines are a kind of lost history, though they are extremely prominent in 19th century fiction."

"Every city should have a good book about it, and now Marseille does. I would say you have to already know the city, however, to appreciate this one."

"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"

"Imagine the Soviets trying to build a 'city of science,' and meeting problem after problem."

"Power, sex, dating, and romance, but surprisingly substantive."

"I am a big fan of Emily St. John Mandel's novels Station Eleven (about a pandemic, by the way, I promise you that is a coincidence), and the new forthcoming The Glass Hotel."

"I think, is [the author's] very best, deepest, most subtle novel."

"I am a big fan of Emily St. John Mandel's novels Station Eleven (about a pandemic, by the way, I promise you that is a coincidence), and the new forthcoming The Glass Hotel."

"[The author's] biggest-selling book to date."

"A look at how to translate ideas from Singapore’s health care system into the United States. It overreaches, but still a useful overview and analysis."

"Probably the best history of the company we're are going to get, at least for the earlier years of the company. Even the jabs at the company seem perfunctory, for the most part this is quite objective as a treatment."

"This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement."

"This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement."

"This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement."

"A YIMBY book, with good historical material on San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other locales involved in the struggle to build more."

"A very good book about the YIMBY movement and its struggles."

"Why don’t more books fit this model: take one topic and explain it well?"

"Will prove one of the best and most important works of the last few years."

"I loved this book."

"The best book on geographic mobility and exit that has been written to date."

" A very smart, well-written, well-argued book."

"Captures the complexities, and in fact pulls the reader away from the usual tired dichotomy."

"The book to read on Dante after you’ve read all the other books."

"An excellent book on economic growth."

"What a beautiful book."

"One of the more important and more prophetic social science books of our time."

"About what options a U.S. government would have — short of full war — to deal with international grabs by China or Russia."

"A very old thesis, but these days quite new."

"One of the most interesting parts of the memoir is how she reconciles being both a 'psychopath' and a Mormon..."

"Perhaps the most important general social science book in a good while."

"Wonderful."

"Excellent."

"Illuminating."

"A very good introduction to the growing body of evidence about the harms of alcohol, in all walks of life."

"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."

"Not a secret history, but it is a good general overall introduction to its chosen topic."

"A frank and brutal documentation of why you should never trust a prosecutor or speak to the FBI."

"I have only browsed this book, yet it appears to have much more information about the Vikings than other books I know."

"New and notable."

"Self-recommending."

"The first third being remarkably moving and incisive as well."

"A wonderful book if you care about the lost pianos of Siberia and indeed I do."

"Tyler Cowen recommended this book in his blog."

"Excellent book!"

"A very good treatment of what it promises, with an emphasis on the concept of mercy in Islam."

"Thorough and useful, though not exciting to read."

"I loved The Wizard and the Prophet."

"Tyler Cowen recommended this book in his blog."