Tyler Cowen

George Mason University / Bloomberg View

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Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University, a columnist for Bloomberg View and co-writer of the economics blog Marginal Revolution. He is the author of Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation.

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