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Tyler Cowen

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#103

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#140

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#70

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Macroeconomics

#186

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#198

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#81

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According to Wikipedia, Tyler Cowen 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.

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Tyler Cowen's Published Works

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The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better (2011) (268)
In Praise of Commercial Culture (2000) (204)
Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World. Robert Nozick, The Belknap Press, 2001, 416 pages (2002) (203)
Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures (2002) (171)
The theory of market failure : a critical examination (1988) (134)
Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation (2013) (125)
An Economic Theory of Avant-Garde and Popular Art, or High and Low Culture (2000) (85)
Scottish Banking before 1845: A Model for Laissez-Faire? (1989) (84)
Risk and Business Cycles: New and Old Austrian Perspectives (1998) (80)
Law as a Public Good: The Economics of Anarchy (1992) (72)
The Development of the New Monetary Economics (1987) (72)
The Scope and Limits of Preference Sovereignty (1993) (71)
Markets in the firm : a market-process approach to management (1997) (68)
Explorations In The New Monetary Economics (1994) (67)
The Great Stagnation (2011) (62)
Why I do not believe in the cost-disease (1996) (61)
What price fame (2000) (60)
Public goods and market failures : a critical examination (1992) (54)
Deregulated Private Water Supply: A Policy Option for Developing Countries (1998) (53)
Inconsistent Equilibrium Constructs: The Evenly Rotating Economy of Mises and Rothbard (1985) (52)
Are all tastes constant and identical?: A critique of Stigler and Becker (1989) (50)
Public Goods Definitions and their Institutional Context: a Critique of Public Goods Theory (1985) (50)
Market Failure or Success: The New Debate (2003) (50)
Discounting and Restitution (1997) (47)
Self-Constraint Versus Self-Liberation (1991) (47)
Self-deception as the root of political failure (2005) (44)
GOOD GRAPES AND BAD LOBSTERS: APPLYING THE ALCHIAN AND ALLEN THEOREM (1995) (44)
Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding (2009) (42)
The Costs of Cooperation (1999) (42)
Why only Nixon could go to China (1998) (42)
Do We Underestimate the Benefits of Cultural Competition (2004) (39)
Does Medical Malpractice Reform Help States Retain Physicians and Does It Matter (2006) (38)
Why women succeed, and fail, in the arts (1996) (38)
Normative population theory (1989) (37)
Why I do not believe in the cost-disease (1996) (36)
More monitoring can induce less effort (1996) (35)
Entrepreneurship, Austrian Economics, and the Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry (2003) (35)
The Industrial Organization of Online Education (2014) (35)
Social Mechanisms: Do economists use social mechanisms to explain? (1998) (34)
Why everything has changed: the recent revolution in cultural economics (2008) (33)
Terrorism as theater: Analysis and policy implications (2006) (30)
Postwar Reconstruction: Some Insights from Public Choice and Institutional Economics (2005) (29)
RENT SEEKING CAN PROMOTE THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC GOODS (1994) (28)
Conflict, Cooperation and Competition in Anarchy (2005) (27)
MUTUAL FUND BANKING: A MARKET APPROACH (1990) (26)
The Micromagic of Microcredit (2008) (25)
Market Failure or Success (2002) (24)
A Skeptical View of the National Science Foundation's Role in Economic Research (2016) (24)
What Do We Learn from the Repugnant Conclusion? (1996) (24)
Market failure for the treatment of animals (2006) (24)
THE IMPORTANCE OF DEFINING THE FEASIBLE SET (2007) (23)
DO ARTISTS SUFFER FROM A COST-DISEASE? (1996) (22)
Credibility may require discretion, not rules (2000) (22)
Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist (2007) (21)
Modern Principles: Microeconomics (2009) (19)
Are Disagreements Honest (2004) (19)
Modern Principles of Economics (2020) (18)
The Esteem Theory of Norms (2002) (18)
Modern Principles: Macroeconomics (2009) (17)
Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World (2009) (17)
Caring about the Distant Future: Why It Matters and What It Means (2007) (17)
THE CINDERELLA CONSTRAINT: WHY REGULATIONS INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY DURING POST-ELECTION QUARTERS (2002) (15)
Economic effects of a conflict-prone world order (1990) (15)
Rejoinder to David Friedman on the Economics of Anarchy (1994) (15)
The Epistemic Problem Does Not Refute Consequentialism (2006) (15)
Using Cost-Benefit Analysis to Review Regulation 1 (1998) (14)
A Road Map to Middle Eastern peace? – A Public Choice Perspective (2004) (14)
Time, bounded utility, and the St. Petersburg paradox (1988) (14)
The new monetary economics (1994) (14)
Politics and the pursuit of fame (1997) (13)
Satisficing and Maximizing: How Do Economists Think About Rationality? (2004) (13)
Reseña de libro: "Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance y the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present", por Jeff Madrick (2011) (12)
Average is Over (2013) (12)
Good & plenty : the creative successes of American arts funding (2006) (12)
A Simple Theory of the Financial Crisis; or, Why Fischer Black Still Matters (2009) (11)
An Economic and Rational Choice Approach to the Autism Spectrum and Human Neurodiversity (2011) (11)
RESOLVING THE REPUGNANT CONCLUSION (2004) (10)
Salute to Schelling: Keeping It Human (2005) (10)
The usefulness of inefficient procurement (1992) (10)
Esteem and ignorance (2007) (10)
Money's marketability premium and the microfoundations of Keynes's theory of money and interest (1994) (9)
Retribution and Reparation in the Transition to Democracy: How Far Back Should We Go? Why Restitution Should Be Small (2006) (9)
POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF ZERO DISCOUNTING: AN EXPLORATION IN POLITICS AND MORALITY (2004) (9)
Should Central Banks Target CPI Futures (1997) (8)
Is the Rate of Scientific Progress Slowing Down? (2019) (8)
DOES THE WELFARE STATE HELP THE POOR? (2002) (8)
Risk and business cycles: Reply to Rosser (2000) (8)
When should regions bid for artistic resources? (2007) (7)
German-Language Precursors of the New Monetary Economics (1992) (7)
Empirical predictions of the new monetary economics: Perspectives on velocity (1990) (7)
The Opportunity Costs of Rent Seeking (1999) (7)
Work Isn’t So Bad after All (2017) (7)
Ski-Lift Pricing with Applications to Labor and Other Markets: Comment (1991) (7)
Why Keynesianism triumphed or, could so many Keynesians have been wrong? (1989) (6)
Distribution in fixed and variable number problems (1990) (6)
Altruism and the Argument from Offsetting Transfers (1993) (6)
Does Technology Drive the Growth of Government? (2020) (5)
The Economics of For-Profit Education (2010) (5)
Markets and Cultural Voices (2005) (5)
The Rate of Return in General Equilibrium: A Critique (1983) (5)
Review essay: The Economy of Esteem (2005) (5)
Austrian welfare economics (1994) (4)
How to Learn and Teach Economics with Large Language Models, Including GPT (2023) (3)
Disagreement as Self-Deception About Meta-Rationality (2002) (3)
Markets in the Firm (1997) (3)
Three principles for sound water policy (1998) (3)
Enter the neuro-economists: why do investors do what they do? (2006) (3)
Who Benefits from Progress (1998) (3)
Neglected Open Questions in the Economics of Artificial Intelligence (2018) (3)
Study guide to accompany Modern principles: microeconomics, second edition, Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok (2011) (3)
IMPERFECT INFORMATION MY ALLEVIATE AGENCY PROBLEMS (1989) (2)
Why are Most Universities Not for Profit (1997) (2)
Martin's Verstehen: The uses of understanding in social science (2001) (2)
Legal Liability and COVID-19 Recovery (2020) (2)
WHY HASN’T ECONOMIC PROGRESS LOWERED WORK HOURS MORE?* (2017) (2)
Weighing Goods: Equality, Uncertainty, and Time , John Broome. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Press, 1991, 255 pages. (1992) (2)
Autistics appear different, but also are different, and this should be valued (2019) (2)
This Global Show Must Go On (2008) (2)
Response to Steven Plaut (2004) (2)
The Public Goods Rationale for Government and the Circularity Problem (2003) (2)
It's Hard to Thaw a Frozen Market (2008) (2)
Creative industries: contracts between art and commerce, by Caves, R.E. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2000, ix + 454 pp., $45.00 (cloth). (2000) (1)
6. Work isn’t so Bad after all (2017) (1)
Taxation and pricing when consumers value freedom (2005) (1)
Understanding Thomas Jefferson (1993) (1)
1 Is a Novel a Model ? (2005) (1)
Program Trading and Stock Index Futures: Blessing or Bane? (1988) (1)
Earl A. Thompson and Charles R. Hickson, Ideology and the Evolution of Vital Institutions: Guilds, the Gold Standard, and Modern International Cooperation (2003) (1)
The Microeconomics of Public Choice in Developing Economies: A Case Study of One Mexican Village (2011) (1)
Can Keynesianism explain the 1930s? Rejoinder to Smiley (1991) (1)
Michael F. Brown: 2003, Who Owns Native Culture?, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 315 pp., ISBN 0-67401-171-6 (2004) (1)
A Simple Theory of the Financial Crisis or, Why Fischer Black Still Matters (2009) (1)
Richard A. Lanham, The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information (2007) (1)
Why women succeed, and fail, in the arts (1996) (1)
Practical Obstacles to the ‘Standard’ (1986) (0)
Morality and Politics: Policy Implications of Zero Discounting: An Exploration in Politics and Morality (2004) (0)
Esteem and Risk Aversion (2003) (0)
Preference Pollution (Book) (2002) (0)
A Risk-Based Theory in Real Terms (1997) (0)
When Do Incentives Corrupt? (2012) (0)
How is China doing (2015) (0)
Book Review: The New Art of Centeral Banking (1991) (0)
Prelude to Political Economy, Kaushik Basu. Cambridge University Press, 2000, xv + 288 pages. (2002) (0)
EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE POOR : WHAT IS THE RIGHT FRAMEWORK ? (2017) (0)
Economists’ Lives: Biography and Autobiography in the History of Economics (review) (2010) (0)
Chiarini Bruno Malanima Paolo, eds., From Malthus’ Stagnation to Sustained Growth: Social, Demographic and Economic Factors (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 192, $100. ISBN 978-0-230-39248-9 (2014) (0)
BUSINESS CYCLES WITHOUT RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS (1997) (0)
Fame and Politics (2004) (0)
Commerce, culture and diversity: some Friedmanesque themes in trade and the arts (2003) (0)
Essays in the theory of welfare economics (1987) (0)
Tyler Cowen on the Economics of Big Business, Progress, and Pandemics (2020) (0)
4. Copyright and the Future of Decentralized Incentives (2009) (0)
Steven J. Brams, Biblical games: Game theory and the Hebrew Bible. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. 220 pages. USD 50.00 (cloth); 17.95 (paper) (2005) (0)
equilibrium- a critique (2016) (0)
1. Warring Perspectives (2009) (0)
Business Cycles without Rational Expectations: The Traditional Approach of the Austrian School (1998) (0)
Introduction to Symposium on U.S. Sovereign Debt Crisis: Tipping-Point Scenarios and Crash Dynamics (2012) (0)
Why Does Freedom Wax and Wane? Some Research Questions in Social Change and Big Government (2018) (0)
2. Indirect Subsidies: The Genius of the American System (2009) (0)
Index: Volume 32, 2009 (2010) (0)
5. Toward a Beautiful and Liberal Future (2009) (0)
Ruth Towse, Cultural Economics: The Arts, the Heritage and the Media Industries (1998) (0)
Book reviews (1992) (0)
Book reviews (1996) (0)
My Biggest Regret (2017) (0)
Replication data for: A Skeptical View of the National Science Foundation's Role in Economic Research (2019) (0)
3. Direct Subsidies: Are They Too Conservative? (2009) (0)
The Impact of Minimum Wage Increases on Food and Kindred Products Prices (1999) (0)
Book Reviews (2002) (0)
Why Is There No New Milton Friedman Today (2013) (0)
A Risk-Based Theory in Monetary Terms (1997) (0)
Charles K. Rowley (ed.), The political economy of the minimal state (1997) (0)
RULE CONSEQUENTIALISM MAKES SENSE AFTER ALL (2011) (0)
Is innovation over (2016) (0)
Taxation When Consumers Value Freedom (2001) (0)

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