Tyler Cowen | |
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Born | |
Academic career | |
Field | Cultural economics |
Institution | George Mason University |
School or tradition | Neoclassical economics American libertarianism |
Alma mater | George Mason University (BS) Harvard University (MS, PhD) |
Doctoral advisor | Thomas Schelling |
Influences | Chicago 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]
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]
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