Marginal Revolution: Assorted links
Tyler Cowen: Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist · Tyler Cowen: Good and Plenty : The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding ...
Tyler Cowen (pronounced /ˈkaʊ.ɛn/; born January 21, 1962) is an American economist, academic, and writer. He 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 is also general director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
After graduating in 1983 with a B.S. from George Mason, in 1987 Cowen received his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard, where he was mentored by 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner, game theorist, and Harvard professor Thomas Schelling.
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...More from Freebase
Marginal Revolution: What stance will (should) Republicans take on ...
And what if you have to pile on d) "Everything Obama proposes is bad" and yet c) leads you to e) "we should defund the very system which we can no longer afford"? What comes out at the end? I am curious. Posted by Tyler Cowen on ...
Marginal Revolution: Assorted links
Our Books. Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok: Modern Principles of Economics · Tyler Cowen: Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World · Tyler Cowen: Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, ...
Marginal Revolution: How to interpret Germany, again
Some people, like Tyler Cowen, are saying that Germany's experience doesn't track very well with standard economic models and this fact needs to be acknowledged by those who loudly proffer policy advice...No one (that I've seen) is ...
Adam Smith's Lost Legacy: Tyler Cowen Spots a Telling Quote
From a quote by Tyler Cowen (at Marginal Revolution Blog), of a book review of John Quiggin (of Crooked Timber Blog) (HERE) and author of: Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ...
What do I think of diplomacy?
Diogo, a loyal MR reader, asks: How do you see diplomacy as a profession? If you could be nominated US Ambassador to a country, which country would you choose? What good novels are there about diplomacy and diplomats? ...
More parking links
Donald Shoup wrote me and asked if I might pass along the following links, to correct misinformation: 1. A short video on the San Francsico parking experiment. 2. Shoup speaking at Yale. 3. How to price curb parking. ...
Game-theoretic allegations about branding and Snooki
Allegedly, the anxious folks at these various luxury houses are all aggressively gifting our gal Snookums with free bags. No surprise, right? But here's the shocker: They are not sending her their own bags. They are sending her each ...
The worst Americans of all time?
Status games, why not? At least the purpose is upfront and the weather is nice. Here is a list from right-wing bloggers and here is a list from Bainbridge, both in one link with Bainbridge's comments. ...
All the king's horses and all the king's men...
Here is another factor behind the recent German economic success: A vast expansion of a program paying to keep workers employed, rather than dealing with them once they lost their jobs, was the most direct step taken in the heat of the ...
