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Tyler Cowen was born on 21 January, 1962 in Bergen County, New Jersey, U.S., is an American economist (born 1962). Discover Tyler Cowen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

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Age 62 years old
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Born 21 January, 1962
Birthday 21 January
Birthplace Bergen County, New Jersey, U.S.
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1962

Tyler Cowen (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.

He hosts the economics blog Marginal Revolution, together with co-author Alex Tabarrok.

Cowen and Tabarrok also maintain the website Marginal Revolution University, a venture in online education.

1983

He 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 with his thesis titled Essays in the theory of welfare economics.

2005

At Harvard, he was mentored by game theorist Thomas Schelling, the 2005 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.

Cowen is a teetotaler, stating he is "with the Mormons" on alcohol, later stating: "I encourage people to just completely, voluntarily abstain from alcohol and make it a social norm".

He is married to Natasha Cowen, a lawyer.

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".

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.

In 2023, Cowen falsely claimed on his blog that Francis Bacon was a critic of the printing press, including fictional quotations and references he had gotten from ChatGPT.

2006

In a 2006 paper, he argued that the epistemic problem fails to refute consequentialism.

2007

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".

2008

Cowen's New York Times columns cover a wide range of issues such as the 2008 financial crisis.

His dining guide for the D.C. area, "Tyler Cowen's Ethnic Dining Guide", has been written about by The Washington Post and Washington City Paper.

Cowen has written papers on political philosophy and ethics.

He co-wrote a paper with philosopher Derek Parfit arguing against the social discount rate.

2009

Cowen has been described as a "libertarian bargainer" who can influence practical policy making, yet he endorsed bank bailouts in his March 2, 2009 column in The New York Times.

2011

He was ranked at number 72 among the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" in 2011 by Foreign Policy Magazine "for finding markets in everything".

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".

Cowen was raised in Hillsdale, New Jersey and attended Pascack Valley High School.

At 15, he became the youngest ever New Jersey state chess champion.

Cowen is of Irish ancestry.

2012

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".

2014

In an August, 2014 blog post, Cowen wrote: "Just to summarize, I generally favor much more immigration but not open borders, I am a liberal on most but not all social issues, and I am market-oriented on economic issues. On most current foreign policy issues I am genuinely agnostic as to what exactly we should do but skeptical that we are doing the right thing at the moment. I don't like voting for either party or for third parties".

2015

Since 2015, he has hosted the podcast Conversations with Tyler.

After the Supreme Court issued its 2015 holding affirming the right of same-sex marriage, Cowen said that "this is exciting and very positive news. Most of all, it is a breakthrough for those people who can now marry, or exercise the choice not to marry".

2016

Cowen writes the "Economic Scene" column for The New York Times and since July 2016 has been a regular opinion columnist at Bloomberg Opinion.

He also writes for such publications as The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Newsweek and the Wilson Quarterly.

He serves as general director of George Mason's Mercatus Center, a university research center that focuses on the market economy.

2018

In September, 2018, Tyler and his team at George Mason University launched Emergent Ventures, a grant and fellowship focused on "moon-shot" ideas.

2019

In July 2019, Cowen co-authored an essay in The Atlantic with Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison calling for a "new science of progress".

In July 2023, Cowen joined "The Growth Commission", a non-partisan group convened by former UK prime minister Liz Truss to promote economic policies that promote growth.

2020

In a 2020 New Year's Day Marginal Revolution post, Cowen outlined a philosophical framework he dubbed "State Capacity Libertarianism".

State Capacity Libertarianism differs from libertarianism in that it acknowledges the state's role in funding and executing megaprojects and advocates a non-isolationist foreign policy.

Cowen has described himself as a liberal on most social issues and supports same-sex marriage.