Tyler Cowen

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Tyler Cowen
Born (1962-01-21) January 21, 1962 (age 62)
Bergen County, New Jersey, U.S.
Academic career
FieldCultural economics
InstitutionGeorge Mason University
School or
tradition		Neoclassical economics
American libertarianism
Alma materGeorge Mason University (BS)
Harvard University (MS, PhD)
Doctoral
advisor		Thomas Schelling
InfluencesChicago School
Carl Menger
Plato[1]

Tyler Cowen (/ˈkaʊən/; born January 21, 1962) is an American economist, columnist, and blogger. He is a professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in the economics department.[2]

With Alex Tabarrok, he co-authors the economics blog Marginal Revolution. Cowen and Tabarrok also ventured into online education with Marginal Revolution University.

Cowen writes the "Economic Scene" column for The New York Times and since July 2016 has been a regular opinion columnist at Bloomberg Opinion.[3] He also writes for such publications as The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and the Wilson Quarterly. He is general director of George Mason's Mercatus Center, a university research center that focuses on the market economy. In September, 2018, Tyler and his team at George Mason University launched Emergent Ventures, a grant and fellowship focused on "moon-shot" ideas.[4]

He was ranked at number 72 among the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" in 2011 by Foreign Policy Magazine.[5] In a 2011 poll of experts by The Economist, Cowen was included in the top 36 nominations of "which economists were most influential over the past decade".[6]

  1. ^ Illing, Sean (June 3, 2017). "9 questions for Tyler Cowen". Vox Media. Archived from the original on June 5, 2017. Who is the person who has most influenced the way you think? [...] More proximately, I would cite economics as a discipline and Plato's dialogic method for philosophy
  2. ^ "Tyler Cowen". Mercatus Center. George Mason University. August 15, 2008. Retrieved October 13, 2019.
  3. ^ Tyler Cowen, columnist Bloomberg
  4. ^ "Economist Tyler Cowen Launches a Fellowship and Grant Program for Moon Shot Ideas". TechCrunch.com. September 13, 2018.
  5. ^ "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers (#72 Tyler Cowan:For finding markets in everything)". Foreign Policy. December 2011. Archived from the original on April 16, 2012. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  6. ^ "Economics' most influential people". Economist.com. February 1, 2011. Retrieved June 30, 2012.