Archive for Tyler Cowen
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Tyler Cowen is Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Imagine a costless or very cheap printing press in the hands of each and every writer. Imagine a world where opinion and commentary bypass the elites and are unregulated by government. Well, we have entered this new world in the last few [...]
1Mar2004 | Tyler Cowen | 3 comments | ContinuedArtistic Freedom Requires Economic Freedom
Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University. This article is taken from In Praise of Commercial Culture, published by Harvard University Press. Copyright © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Psychological motivations, though a driving force behind many great artworks, do not operate in a [...]
1Jan1999 | Tyler Cowen | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Socialist Roots of Modern Anti-Semitism
Dr. Cowen teaches economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Auschwitz meant that six million Jews were killed, and thrown on the waste-heap of Europe, for what they were considered: money-Jews. Finance capital and the banks, the hard core of the system of imperialism and capitalism, had turned the hatred of men against money [...]
1Jan1997 | Tyler Cowen | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Arts in a Free Market Economy
Dr. Cowen teaches economics at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Capitalism has proven to be the most favorable system for the arts, letters, and music. Most renowned Western creators, from Michelangelo to Mozart to Monet, succeeded in the marketplace. Shakespeare wrote for profit and marketed his plays to a wide public audience. Marcel Proust did [...]
1Dec1995 | Tyler Cowen | 2 comments | ContinuedWhich Liberalism?
Tyler Cowen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Market Processes. George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Friedrich A. Hayek, in his famous essay “Individualism: True and False” (Hayek, 1948), draws a distinction between two differing strands in Western thought: skeptical individualism and rationalist constructivism. As Hayek points out, at one time [...]
1Aug1987 | Tyler Cowen | 0 comments | Continued-
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