Cowen, Tyler: - Tyler Cowen is a Holbert L. Harris professor of economics at George Mason University and director of the Mercatus Center. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1987. His book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better was a New York Times bestseller. He was named one of the most influential economists of the last decade in an Economist poll and dubbed "America's hottest economist" by Bloomberg Businessweek. Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of its top 100 global thinkers of 2011. Cowen co-writes a blog called Marginal Revolution, runs a podcast series called Conversations with Tyler, and has cofounded an online economics education project at MRUniversity. He lives in Virginia.