Fleecing the rich

[diceisgod]

Wow. Just look at this guy's resume and background below from his wiki entry. Geobells couldn't touch this guy: Harvard grad, The NY Times, his rhetoric about "free markets" (might as well believe in Oompa Loopas), his shameless support for "globalization"...I can only guess there is more absurdity if one cares to dig into it. The guy's a tub of shit.

Tyler Cowen (COW-en) (b. January 21, 1962) occupies the Holbert C. Harris Chair of economics as a professor at George Mason University and is co-owner, with Alex Tabarrok, of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution. He currently writes the "Economic Scene" column for the New York Times

Education:
After graduating in 1983 with a B.S. from George Mason, in 1987 Cowen received his Ph.D. at Harvard, where he was mentored by 2005 Nobel Prize winner, game theorist, and Harvard professor Thomas Schelling.[1]

Books:
Cowen's primary research interest is the economics of culture and has written books on fame (What Price Fame?), art (In Praise of Commercial Culture) and cultural trade (Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World's Cultures). In Markets and Cultural Voices, he relays how globalization is changing the world of three Mexican amateur painters. For Cowen, free markets change culture for the better, allowing them to evolve into something more people want. Other books include Public Goods and Market Failures, The Theory of Market Failure, Explorations in the New Monetary Economics, Risk and Business Cycles, Economic Welfare, and New Theories of Market Failure. His newest work, Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist, was published in August of 2007.