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Tyler Cowen
BornJanuary 21, 1962
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
FieldCultural economics
School or
tradition		Neoclassical economics
InfluencesChicago School
Thomas Schelling
Carl Menger

Tyler Cowen (/[invalid input: 'icon']ˈkaʊ.ən/; born January 21, 1962) is an American economist, academic, and writer. He occupies the Holbert C. Harris Chair of economics as a professor at George Mason University and is co-author, with Alex Tabarrok, of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution. He currently writes the "Economic Scene" column for the New York Times, and he also writes for such publications as The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Newsweek, and the Wilson Quarterly. Cowen also serves as general director of George Mason's Mercatus Center, a university research center that focuses on the market economy. In February 2011, Cowen received a nomination as one of the most influential economists in the last decade through a survey by The Economist.[1] He was ranked #72 among the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" in 2011 by Foreign Policy Magazine, "for finding markets in everything".[2]

Education and personal life

Cowen was born on January 21, 1962. At the age of 15, Cowen became the youngest ever New Jersey state chess champion.[3][4] Cowen graduated from George Mason University with a bachelor of science degree in economics in 1983 and received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1987. At Harvard, he was mentored by game theorist Thomas Schelling, the 2005 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics. He is married to Natasha Cowen, a lawyer.

Writings

Culture

The Los Angeles Times has described Cowen as "a man who can talk about Haitian voodoo flags, Iranian cinema, Hong Kong cuisine, Abstract Expressionism, Zairian music and Mexican folk art with seemingly equal facility".[5] One of Cowen's primary research interests is the economics of culture. He 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 amate painters. Cowen argues that 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.

Recent books

Cowen followed the controversial success of his 2011 work, The Great Stagnation with An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies "taking on food with equally provocative ideas."[6] The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better is a short, 15,000-word take on the United States' recent economic trajectory and was released only in electronic format in January 2011. Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World was released in July 2009 (and rereleased in 2010 with the new title The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy) and received favorable reviews from critics including Matthew Yglesias and Tim Harford.

New York Times columns

Cowen's New York Times columns cover a wide range of issues, including the 2008 financial crisis, "Too Few Regulations? No, Just Ineffective Ones".

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.

Political philosophy

Cowen has written papers in political philosophy and ethics: for example, he co-wrote a paper with the philosopher Derek Parfit, arguing against the social discount rate.[7] A recent paper has argued that the epistemic problem fails to refute consequentialist forms of argument.[8] Cowen has been described as a "libertarian bargainer", someone of moderate libertarian ideals who can influence practical policy making.[9] 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 is a package deal". His argument was subsequently criticized by Bryan Caplan,[10] Justin Raimondo,[11] Christopher Westley,[12] and Doug MacKenzie.[13] Cowen endorsed bailouts in a March 2, 2009 column in the New York Times.[14] He was a supporter of the Iraq War.[15]

In 2012, David Brooks called Cowen one of the most influential bloggers on the right, writing that he is among those who "start from broadly libertarian premises but do not apply them in a doctrinaire way."[16]

Publications

Books

  • Modern Principles of Economics (2 ed.). Worth Publishers. 2012. p. 900. ISBN 978-1-4292-3997-4. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies. New York, NY: Dutton Adult. 2012. ISBN 978-0525952664.
  • The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better. Dutton Adult. 2011. ISBN 978-0525952718.
  • Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World. Dutton Adult. 2009. ISBN 0525951237.
  • Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist. Dutton Adult. 2007. ISBN 978-0525950257.
  • Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0691120423.
  • Markets and Cultural Voices: Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate Painters (Economics, Cognition, and Society). University of Michigan Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0472068890.
  • Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0691117836.
  • What Price Fame?. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0674008090.
  • In Praise of Commercial Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0674001886.
  • Risk and Business Cycles: New and Old Austrian Perspectives. Psychology Press. 1998. ISBN 9780415169196.
  • Public Goods and Market Failures: A Critical Examination (2 ed.). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. 1991. ISBN 978-1560005704.

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References

  1. ^ "Economics' most influential people". Economist.com. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  2. ^ "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers (#72 Tyler Cowan:For finding markets in everything)". Foreign Policy. December 2011. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  3. ^ "Interview with the Former "Youngest New Jersey Chess Champion," Tyler Cowen". Kenilworthchessclub.org. September 8, 2006. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  4. ^ New Jersey State Champions 1946 – Present New Jersey State Chess Federation, Official Site
  5. ^ The joy of thinking globally, February 7, 2003, Daniel Akst, Los Angeles Times
  6. ^ Cowen, Tyler (April 12, 2012). "Penny Pleasance in The New York Journal of Books". Nyjournalofbooks.com. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  7. ^ 'Against the social discount rate', Derek Parfit and Tyler Cowen, in Peter Laslett & James S. Fishkin (eds.) Justice between age groups and generations, Yale University Press: New Haven, 1992, pp. 144-161.
  8. ^ The Epistemic Problem Does Not Refute Consequentialism, Tyler Cowen, Utilitas (2006), 18: 383-399
  9. ^ Klein, Daniel B. "Mere Libertarianism: Blending Hayek and Rothbard". Reason Papers. Vol. 27: Fall 2004.
  10. ^ "EconLog, Worst Advice to Libertarians Ever?, Bryan Caplan: Library of Economics and Liberty". Econlog.econlib.org. March 14, 2007. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  11. ^ "Libertarianism and the Great Divide- by Justin Raimondo". Antiwar.com. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  12. ^ "The Real Libertarian Paradox by Christopher Westley". Lewrockwell.com. March 16, 2007. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  13. ^ D. W. MacKenzie (March 19, 2007). "Tyler's Paradox - Mises Economics Blog". Blog.mises.org. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  14. ^ Cowen, Tyler (March 1, 2009). "Message to Regulators: Bank Fix Needed Quickly". New York Times.
  15. ^ "The Volokh Conspiracy". Volokh.com. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  16. ^ Brooks, David (11-19-2012). "The Conservative Future". New York Times. Retrieved 28 November 2012. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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