Tyler Cowen’s list of best non-fiction books of 2023 has 28 entries. Those are not all the books he read so far this year — only “the best” — and looking at the list one wonders what the criteria could possibly have been. The best at adding to the noise, perhaps?
@JohnBrady Oh, he skims much and often (see also here), at least non-fiction, so that is part of his hyper-“productivity”. It also gets him in trouble — he skimmed through Nassim Taleb’s Fooled by Randomness and gave a fairly uncharitable review, which got him into Taleb’s bad book (which admittedly is not a hard thing to do).