Tyler Cowen

Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Great Stagnation. More

Tyler Cowen is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Director of the Mercatus Cente and author of The Great Stagnation. He blogs at Marginal Revolution.

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Remember, America's Poor Are Richer Than Most of the World

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There may be ways to help the middle class without huge economic changes More »

Decades of Low Crime Show Society Is Resilient to Decay

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If the middle class is falling apart and getting poorer, why hasn't society become more lawless? More »

A Worried, Uncertain Country—but Not a Miserable One

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A bad economy doesn't ruin all of a person's life More »

Is Bank Nationalization Really the Way To Go?

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Matt Yglesias puts forward some of the current arguments for nationalizing insolvent banks; Paul Krugman and Felix Salmon are pushing a similar approach. Maybe, but I'm not yet convinced.It's easy enough to argue that any single bank yields a superior result when that bank is nationalized rather than bailed out, for reasons ably discussed for Matt. The problem comes with the banks that sit on the margin, namely the banks that do not yet need either… More »

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