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Tyler Cowen

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Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University, as well as director of the Mercatus Center and the James Buchanan Center. Dubbed a "cult hero" by New York magazine, Cowen is the favorite cultural critic of the economically literate.

Cowen's most recent book, Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist, was described in The Economist as "economics in Ludwig von Mises's formulation of a 'logic of choice.'" Cowen's previous works include: Good & Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding; Markets and Culture Voices: Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of the Mexican Amate Painters; Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures; What Price Fame?; In Praise of Commercial Culture; and The Theory Of Market Failure, published by the Cato Institute. Cowen is a monthly contributor to the New York Times. His writings have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Reason, and Forbes.

Cowen is co-author of the popular economics weblog Marginal Revolution.


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Opinion and Commentary

"How an Insurance Mandate Could Leave Many Worse Off," The New York Times, October 25, 2009

"Too Few Regulations? No, Just Ineffective Ones," New York Times Upfront, September 13, 2008

"This Global Show Must Go On," The New York Times, June 8, 2008

Events

"Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice," December 1, 2009 [Book Forum]

"Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist," November 15, 2007 [Book Forum]




Multimedia

Daily Podcast "Create Your Own Economy" featuring Tyler Cowen, August 20, 2009 [Flash Audio, 05:12]

Weekly Video Economist Tyler Cowen on how to Discover Your Inner Economist December 3, 2007 [Flash Video, 09:09]

Daily Podcast "Discover Your Inner Economist" featuring Tyler Cowen, November 16, 2007 [Flash Audio, 06:59]

Daily Podcast "Are Libertarians in Intellectual Crisis?" featuring Tyler Cowen, March 20, 2007 [Flash Audio, 09:43]