Everything about Tyler Cowen totally explained
Tyler Cowen (COW-en) (b.
January 21,
1962) occupies the Holbert C. Harris Chair of
economics as a professor at
George Mason University and is co-owner, with
Alex Tabarrok, of the popular economics blog
Marginal Revolution. He currently writes the "Economic Scene" column for the
New York Times and writes for such magazines as
The New Republic.
Education
After graduating in 1983 with a B.S. from George Mason, in 1987 Cowen received his Ph.D. at
Harvard, where he was mentored by 2005
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner,
game theorist, and Harvard professor
Thomas Schelling.
Books
Cowen's primary research interest is the economics of culture and has written books on fame (
What Price Fame?), art (
In Praise of Commercial Culture) and cultural trade (
Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World's Cultures). In
Markets and Cultural Voices, he relays how
globalization is changing the world of three
Mexican amateur painters. For Cowen,
free markets change culture for the better, allowing them to evolve into something more people want. Other books include
Public Goods and Market Failures,
The Theory of Market Failure,
Explorations in the New Monetary Economics,
Risk and Business Cycles,
Economic Welfare, and
New Theories of Market Failure. His newest work,
Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist, was published in August of 2007.
Dining guide
His dining guide for the
D.C. area, "Tyler Cowen's Ethnic Dining Guide", was reprinted in the Food section of
The Washington Post.
Ideology
Cowen has been classified as a "libertarian bargainer" - someone of libertarian ideals who isn't so radical that he can't influence the "currently powerful". This puts him closer to
Friedrich Hayek than an
anarcho-capitalist such as
Murray Rothbard or an
anti-establishmentarian like
Ludwig von Mises. In a 2007 article entitled "
The Paradox of Libertarianism
," Cowen argued that libertarians "should embrace a world with growing wealth, growing positive liberty, and yes, growing government. We don’t have to favor the growth in government per se, but we do need to recognize that sometimes it's a package deal." His argument was subsequently criticized by
Bryan Caplan,
Justin Raimondo, Christopher Westley and Doug MacKenzie.
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