Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University, Director and Chairman of the Board of the Mercatus Center. He has written numerous books on economics including the bestsellers, The Great Stagnation and The Complacent Class. He is a columnist with The Free Press and previously wrote for Bloomberg Opinion; his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR.org, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, and many other outlets. He is the co-author of the well-read economics daily blog, Marginal Revolution, co-founder of the on-line educational platform, Marginal Revolution University, the founder of Emergent Ventures, an incubator fellowship and grant program for social entrepreneurs with highly scalable ideas for meaningfully improving society, and host of the popular podcast, Conversations with Tyler.