# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tyler-cowen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:43:01.659Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tyler-cowen"
name: "Tyler Cowen"
slug: "tyler-cowen"
description: "Tyler Cowen is an American economist, author, and public intellectual. He is the Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and serves as chairman of the university’s Mercatus Center. Cowen is widely known for his blog Marginal Revolution, which he has co-authored with Alex Tabarrok since 2003, and for hosting the interview podcast Conversations with Tyler."
tagline: "American economist, columnist and blogger"
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birthDate: "1962-01-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump