Tyler Cowen

Author of Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist

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About the Author

Tyler Cowen is Professor of Economics at George Mason University, where he directs the Mercatus Center and the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy

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Works by Tyler Cowen

The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will [Eventually] Feel… (2011) 319 copies, 16 reviews

Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation (2013) 295 copies, 9 reviews

The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream (2017) 231 copies, 2 reviews

An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies (2012) 191 copies, 4 reviews

Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World (2009) 188 copies, 1 review

Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures (2002) 136 copies

Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals (2018) 119 copies, 2 reviews

In Praise of Commercial Culture (1998) 99 copies, 2 reviews

Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World (2022) 90 copies

Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero (2019) 54 copies, 3 reviews

The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy (2010) 51 copies

Modern Principles of Economics (2009) 37 copies

What Price Fame? (2000) 25 copies

Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding (2006) 25 copies, 1 review

Modern Principles: Macroeconomics (2009) 24 copies

Modern Principles: Microeconomics (2009) 19 copies

Thinking Differently: Two Brilliant Minds Discuss What It Means to Analyze Information and Produce Solutions Outside… (2009) 10 copies

The Theory of Market Failure: A Critical Examination (1988) 8 copies

Risk and Business Cycles: New and Old Austrian Perspectives (1998) 7 copies

Markets in the Firm: A Market-Process Approach to Management (1997) 7 copies

Markets and Cultural Voices: Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate Painters (2005) 5 copies

Public Goods and Market Failures: A Critical Examination (1991) 5 copies

Plutocracy & Democracy: How Money Corrupts Our Politics and Culture 5 copies

How the United States Funds the Arts 1 copy

Development Economics 1 copy

Great Economists: Classical Economics and Its Forerunners 1 copy

The Eurozone Crisis 1 copy

Economic Welfare (2000) — Editor — 1 copy

Explorations in the New Monetary Economics (1994) 1 copy

The future of culture in a globalised world (2005) 1 copy

Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter? 1 copy

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Associated Works

Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory (1998) — Contributor — 52 copies

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Canonical name: Cowen, Tyler
Birthdate: 1962-01-21
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Education: George Mason University (BS | Economics | 1983)
Harvard University (PhD | Economics | 1987)
Occupations: Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Organizations: The James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy
Mercatus Center

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Reviews

Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to… by Tyler Cowen

3.5 rounded up to 4 stars. It felt a little bit like mostly the author wanted to talk about all his travel tips for foodies, but was willing to include some other topics as well. Overall I'm glad I read it though and will take away some new considerations.

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JorgeousJotts | 8 other reviews | Jan 8, 2025 |

In praise of commercial culture by Tyler Cowen

The book is basically an argumentation against what it defines as "cultural pessimism". Unfortunately it goes no further than common sense.

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d.v. | 1 other review | May 16, 2023 |

The great stagnation : how America ate all the… by Tyler Cowen

Great interpretation of (not only) american economic situation. The subtitle says everything: "How America Ate All the Low-hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (eventually) Feel Better".

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d.v. | 15 other reviews | May 16, 2023 |

Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to… by Tyler Cowen

Economists are an odd sort. Though I can understand a lot of their thinking, it's like they're the type of person that make their decisions comparing the lists of pro and cons. The author at least pays heed to this fact and laughs about it.

The chapter on sins excited me most. Are there really companies who you could pay to use for an alibi? Yes. Are there companies that you could pa yto be your girlfriend? Yes.

But I guess he lost me with the chapter on food. I consider myself an expert on eating since I do it many times a day - we all are!

He doe offer some suggestions to improve on meetings. Even passing some value to even the must mundane and pointless of meetings. His problems of dealing with habitual late people (one of my pet peeves) made me laugh but even an economist can't find a solution for that one!… (more)

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wellington299 | 8 other reviews | Feb 19, 2022 |

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