Tyler Cowen on Life and Fate

Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem, and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today is november fourth, twenty twenty four, and my guest is economist, author, podcaster, and blogger Tyler Cowan of George Bity. This is Tyler's nineteenth appearance on Econ Talk. He was last here in November of twenty twenty three. Discussing who is the greatest economist.

of all time. Our topic for today is Vasily Grossman's masterpiece. Life and fate. We will minimize spoilers, but I'd encourage you to read the book before listening if that's your habit. As I've suggested you You may want to read this on the Kindle, which makes it a little easier to follow the characters because it's easy to search for them if you forget who they are. Uh this episode is also available on Tyler's podcast conversations with Tyler.

Tyler, welcome back to Econ Talk. Thank you, Russ. Is it a spoiler to tell them who won the war in the Battle of Stalingrad? I was thinking of that. I think we can reveal that. Okay, that's fine. Let's start then. You have some introduction. Uh well I wanted to just say a little bit about Grossman and the book, very briefly. Uh

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