Columns by Tyler Cowen

My New York Times columns:

2006

1. April 20th: Enter the Neuro-Economists: Why Do Investors Do What They Do?

2. May 18th: A Contrarian Look at Whether U.S. Chief Executives Are Overpaid

3. June 15th: Investing in Good Deeds Without Checking the Prospectus

4. July 13th: In the Language of Gastronomy, Those Michelin Stars Translate as Dollar Signs

5. August 10th: Microloans May Work, but There Is Dispute in India Over Who Will Make Them

6. September 7th: China Is Big Trouble for the U.S. Balance of Trade, Right? Well, Not So Fast

7. October 5th: Poor U.S. Scores in Health Care Don't Measure Nobels and Innovation

8. November 2nd: What Makes a Nation Wealthy? Maybe It's the Working Stiff

9. November 20th: The Immigration Answer? It's in Mexico's Classrooms

10. December 28th: Universal 401(k) Accounts Would Bring the Poor Into the Ownership Society

2007

11. January 25th: Incomes and Inequality: What the Numbers Don't Tell Us

12. March 22nd: Abolishing the Middlemen Won't Make Health Care a Free Lunch

13. April 19th: Matrimony Has Its Benefits, and Divorce Has a Lot To Do With That

14. May 17th: Why Is Income Inequality in America So Pronounced? Consider Education

15. June 14th: The Loose Reins on U.S. Teenagers Can Produce Trouble or Entrepreneurs

16. July 12th: A Way for Resource-Rich Countries to Audit Their Way out of Corruption

17. September 9th: It's Monetary Policy not a Morality Play

18. October 28th: To Know Contractors, Know Government

19. December 2nd: The Dollar is Falling, and That's Good News

2008

20. January 13th: So We Thought. But Then Again...

21. February 17th: It's an Election, Not a Revolution

22. March 23rd: It's Hard to Thaw a Frozen Market

23. April 27th: Freer Trade Could Fill the World's Rice Bowl

My Slate columns:

1. September 6th, 2005: A conversation regarding Barbara Ehrenreich's "Bait and Switch" -- Tyler Cowen to Alan Wolfe (Part One), Alan Wolfe to Tyler Cowen (Part Two), Tyler Cowen to Alan Wolfe (Part Three), Alan Wolfe to Tyler Cowen (Part Four),

2. March 2nd, 2006: Octavia Butler: The Outsider Who Changed Science Fiction.

3. April 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st, 2006: An Economist Visits New Orleans -- Part One, Part Two, Part Three (with Dan Rothschild), and Part Four.

4. May 15th, 2006: What Are Independent Bookstores Really Good For?

5. November 1st, 2006: Can You Really Save the Planet at the Dinner Table?

6. June 13th, 2007: Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition -- Or Do They?  A Look at Nassim Taleb's The Black Swan