Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes · first published 1651
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Ada Palmer on Dwarkesh Podcast (2026-06-16): mention
“…Machiavelli becomes exciting first in the aftermath of the publication of Hobbes’s Leviathan…”
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Toby Stuart on EconTalk (2025-10-06): mention
“…let's go all the way back to Leviathan, which we both probably read in graduate school.…”
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John Mearsheimer on Lex Fridman Podcast (2023-11-17): mention
“…It’s what he calls the Leviathan, and that of course is the title of his famous book.…”
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Ian Morris on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2023-10-23): mention
“…this is something that Thomas Hobbes saw back in the 17th century in his book Leviathan…”
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Anders Sandberg on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2023-10-06): mention
“…it's about Hobbes's Leviathan and Nick Bostrom's singleton scenario…”
Richard Gunderman on EconTalk (2022-04-04): mention
“…if you read Leviathan, I think Hobbes thinks we're fundamentally egoists…”
Arthur Diamond on EconTalk (2019-08-12): mention
“…to use Hobbes's phrase [Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan"]…”
John Nye on Conversations with Tyler (2018-11-21): mention
“…the book I’ve been pondering a lot is Hobbes’s Leviathan…”
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James Otteson on EconTalk (2014-12-08): mention
“…As Thomas Hobbes described in 1650 in The Leviathan…”
Yanis Varoufakis on EconTalk (2013-02-25): mention
“…The Prisoners' Dilemma problems that Thomas Hobbes was very concerned about in The Leviathan…”
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