Tyler Cowen

Author, Professor

Tyler Cowen is an American economist, columnist and blogger. He is a professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in the economics department. He hosts the economics blog Marginal Revolution, together with co-author Alex Tabarrok.

Tyler Cowen's 42 Book Recommendations

• Confessions of a Sociopath
• Cognitive Gadgets
• The Wizard and the Prophet
• The Power Notebooks
• Against the Grain
• The Ideas Industry
• Facebook
• When the President Calls
• New Atlantis Revisited
• The Cure That Works
• The Origins of You
• Spastic Diplegia--Bilateral Cerebral Palsy
• Very Important People
• Sketches of the Criminal World
• Frank Ramsey
• Conviction Machine
• The Lost Pianos of Siberia
• The Infinite Machine
• Sunnis and Shi'a
• Fully Grown
• The Bomb
• Free to Move
• Leonhard Euler
• Children of Ash and Elm
• Social Democratic Capitalism
• The Senkaku Paradox
• The Age of Entitlement
• The Industrialists
• A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume I
• Generation Priced Out
• Golden Gates
• The Decadent Society
• The Glass Bead Game
• Wikinomics
• The Book of Disquiet
• Here Comes Everybody
• Station Eleven
• Everything Is Miscellaneous
• The Glass Hotel
• Individualism and Economic Order
• The Founders
• Zero to One: “Peter Thiel, in addition to being an accomplished entrepreneur and investor, is also one of the leading public intellectuals of our time. Read this book to get your first glimpse of how and why that is true.”

Books written by Tyler Cowen

• Average Is Over
• Discover Your Inner Economist
• The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
• Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World