TYLER COWEN is the Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He also serves as the chairman and general director of George Mason's Mercatus Center, a university research center that focuses on the market economy.
He is the author of several books, including An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies; Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist; Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World; The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better; Average is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation; and The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream.
