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Mercatus Center at George Mason University · 301 episodes with transcripts

Tyler Cowen engages today's deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world, and everything in between. New conversations every other Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

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Liaquat Ahamed on Financial Crises, Gold, and the Lessons of 1873

October 14, 2026

Tyler Cowen (0:04)

Conversations with Tyler is produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, bridging the gap between academic ideas and real world problems. Learn more at mercatus.org. For a full transcript of every conversation enhanced with helpful links, visit conversationswithtyler.com.

Hello everyone and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today I am chatting with Liaquat Ahamed, who is the author of a new and wonderful book, 1873, The Rothschilds, The First Great Depression and The Making of the Modern World, which I enjoyed very much. Many of you will know him as the author of Lords of…

Liaquat Ahamed (1:11)

Thank you, Tyler.

Tyler Cowen (1:13)

I have a general question about how your work fits together.

So your book, Lords of Finance, it convinced me that financial crises really matter, and your new book, 1873, almost convinced me that financial crises don't really matter, because the world just keeps on growing.

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