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Tyler Cowen


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January 21, 1962

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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 mar ...more

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Why are there so few breweries in the South?

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Most southern states have fewer breweries per population than the rest of the country. This paper examines why. The main outcome is that in the South, the number of breweries is negatively associated with higher campaign contributions from big breweries, the number of beer distributors per capita, and the Southern Baptist adherence rate. I

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“Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.”
― Tyler Cowen, An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies
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“The measure of self-motivation in a young person will become the best way to predict upward mobility.”
― Tyler Cowen, Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
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“It’s harder to get outside your own head than you think.”
― Tyler Cowen, Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
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