Tyler Cowen

Economist at George Mason University, prolific author, and one of the most widely read public intellectuals in economics and culture. Co-authors Marginal Revolution, one of the most influential economics blogs.

Influences & Inspirations

Based on primary sources — interviews, essays, and posts where Tyler directly cited these thinkers as influences.

Derek Parfit
"By far the biggest impression" among philosophers he read.
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W.V.O. Quine
"Remains a major influence, including on how he thinks about blog posts."
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Peter Thiel
Called "thinker number one" for understanding American society.
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Walter Grinder
"Very important" mentor who modeled a life devoted to reading and ideas.
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Israel Kirzner
Attended his NYU Austrian economics seminars as a high schooler; described as "fantastic."
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Key Works

Recent Articles

AI-Native Firms
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 3d ago
A Cohort Perspective on Latin America’s Fertility Transition
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 4d ago
Who Leads? Relative Age Effects on Social Capital
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 6d ago
What do the AIs think of us?
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 10d ago
How well does current AI find errors in economics papers?
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 12d ago
New paper on the iPhone and fertility
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 13d ago
How High-Skill Immigration Restrictions Eroded Regional Productivity: Evidence from the 2017 BAHA Executive Order
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 14d ago
AI in gdp
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 24d ago
New results on AI mental health therapists
Marginal Revolution · Bio · 1mo ago
The collapse of teen fertility in the digital era
Marginal Revolution · Bio · 1mo ago
Robin (it’s happening)
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 1mo ago
Revealing Life Preferences Through LLMs
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 1mo ago
Meta-papers in science (from my email)
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 1mo ago
The interstate trade effects of autonomous trucks
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 1mo ago
Using agents to build economic datasets
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 1mo ago
Which are the most common everyday phenomena that we don’t properly understand?
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 1mo ago
Will AI kill the research paper?
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 1mo ago
USA sectoral shift fact of the day
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 1mo ago
Self-fulfilling misalignment?
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 1mo ago
Do Market Reforms Cause Growth?
Marginal Revolution · Finance · 1mo ago