Tyler Cowen is the Holbert L. Harris University professor of economics at George Mason University and is General Director of both the James Buchanan Center and the Mercatus Center. He edited the volume Public Goods and Market Failures, and wrote Explorations in the New Monetary Economics with Randall Kroszner, In Praise of Commercial Culture, on the economics of music and the arts, and What Price Fame?, on the economics of multiculturalism. He recently published Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World's Cultures. Dr. Cowen received his Ph.D in economics from Harvard University.

Dr. Cowen's personal web page includes the first chapter of In Praise of Commercial Culture, his ethnic dining guide for Washington, DC, and his vita.

Dr. Cowen's weblog, Marginal Revolution

Dr. Cowen's working papers