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Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen (; born January 21, 1962) is an American economist, columnist, blogger, and podcaster. He is a professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in the economics department.

In April 2025, Cowen began writing as a regular contributor to The Free Press. Previously, Cowen wrote the "Economic Scene" column for ''The New York Times'' and, until April 2025, was a regular opinion columnist at ''Bloomberg Opinion''. He also wrote 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 focused on the market economy. In September 2018, Tyler and his team at George Mason University launched Emergent Ventures, a grant and fellowship program for "moon-shot" ideas.

He was ranked at number 72 among the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" in 2011 by ''Foreign Policy''. 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". Provided by Wikipedia