Freedom Center Talks: Tyler Cowen, Commerce and Culture

Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 3:40 p.m.

Tyler Cowen dropped by an informal conversation about a talk he gave at the University of Arizona. You can see that presentation below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&t=15&v=0kcQEsqKggo&app=desktop

and you can learn more about Tyler below:

https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/tyler-cowen#0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Cowen

You can find him at Marginal Revolution below:

https://marginalrevolution.com/

Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also Director of the Mercatus Center.  He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1987.  His book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better was a New York Times best-seller.  Many of his earlier books, including In Praise of Commercial Culture​ and Creative Destruction study the economics of culture and the arts. He was recently named in an Economist poll as one of the most influential economists of the last decade. Several years ago Bloomberg Businessweek dubbed him “America's Hottest Economist.”  Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of its “Top 100 Global Thinkers” of 2011.