Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen is an economics professor at George Mason University, the founder of Marginal Revolution and a columnist for Bloomberg.

Articles

Ideas

The case for the longer term

In Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals I argue that we should have two and only two “stubborn attachments” in our social philosophy: Sustainable economic growth Absolute human rights Of those two concepts, economic growth is the focus of the book, and the key point is that economic growth has ethical value. More […]