Tyler Cowen
Economist, author and professor
Tyler Cowen is an American economist and professor at George Mason University. He co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and hosts the podcast Conversations with Tyler.
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American Born 1962 in Bergen County, United States
About Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen, born in 1962, is an American economist, author and public intellectual. He is a professor of economics at George Mason University and is linked to its Mercatus Center, a research center focused on the market economy. Since 2003 he has co-written the blog Marginal Revolution with Alex Tabarrok, and the two have also started an online education project, Marginal Revolution University. Cowen hosts the interview podcast Conversations with Tyler. His main research interest is the economics of culture, and he has written books on fame, art and cultural trade. Foreign Policy magazine named him one of its Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2011.