Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen
Born	(1962-01-21) January 21, 1962 (age 62) Bergen County, New Jersey, U.S.
Academic career
Institution	George Mason University
Field	Cultural economics
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]