Tyler Cowen

Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and the author most recently of Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero.

Recent Articles

Why CEOs Actually Deserve Their Gazillion-Dollar Salaries

They also aren't to blame for income inequality, argues economist Tyler Cowen

By Tyler Cowen April 11, 2019

The Unseen Threat to America: We Don’t Leave Our Hometowns

Poverty and low incomes have flipped from being reasons to move to reasons not to go anywhere

By Tyler Cowen February 22, 2017

Why Texas Is Our Future

Correction Appended: Oct. 21, 2013 They say the Lone Star State has four seasons: drought, flood, blizzard and twister. This summer 97% of the state was in a persistent drought; in 2011 the Dallas--Fort Worth...

By Tyler Cowen October 28, 2013
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