Tyler Cowen (born January 21, 1962) occupies the Holbert C. Harris Chair of economics as a professor at George Mason University and is co-author, with Alex Tabarrok, of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution. He currently writes the “Economic Scene” column for the New York Times and writes for such magazines as The New Republic and The Wilson Quarterly.
Cowen’s primary research interest 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.
Books in order of publication:
Public Goods and Market Failures: A Critical Examination (2 ed.). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. 1991.
Explorations in the New Monetary Economics (1994)
Risk and Business Cycles: New and Old Austrian Perspectives. Psychology Press. 1998.
In Praise of Commercial Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2000.
What Price Fame?. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2002.
Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World’s Cultures. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2004.
Markets and Cultural Voices: Liberty vs Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate Painters. (Economics, Cognition, and Society). University of Michigan Press. 2005.
Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2006.
Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist. Dutton Adult. 2007.
Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World. Dutton Adult. 2009.
The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy (2010)
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better. Dutton Adult. 2011.
An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies. New York: Dutton Adult. 2012.
The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream. New York: St. Martins Press. 2017.
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals. Stripe Press. 2018.
Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019.
Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World, with Daniel Gross. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2022
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