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Conversations with Tyler · February 18, 2026 · 53m

Joe Studwell on Africa, Asia, and What Development Actually Requires

Tyler Cowen (solo)

When Tyler called Joe Studwell's How Asia Works "perhaps my favorite economics book of the year" back in 2013, he wasn't alone: it became one of the most influential treatments of industrial policy ever written. Now Studwell has turned his attention to Africa with How Africa Works.