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Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
He took the scattered information buried deep within academic publications and made it accessible, exciting, and relevant.
Bryan Lee • Why Sharing Our Perspective Matters
experience
Craig Mod • Post-Artifact Books and Publishing
moderation.
David Bergen • The Matter With Morris: A Novel
In 2011 Cowen published a digital pamphlet in which he argued that since the 1973 oil-price shock, America had experienced a hidden crisis of lost growth that would be resolved only by the development of new technology. He called this period the “Great Stagnation”, and he proposed a cultural solution rather than an economic one: raise the social st... See more
archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything
Not long after arriving at George Mason, Cowen read “Sexual Personae”by Camille Paglia, a buccaneering polemic about Western art across millennia. Although he didn’t agree with Paglia’s ideas, he saw this was the kind of book he wanted to write. Within months he was drafting a lively, popular history of markets and high culture. In 2003 he and Taba... See more
archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything
capacious
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
Second Machine Age, written by the MIT economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee.