tylercowen (@tylercowen) — Twitter Score 296 out of 1000

Tyler Cowen is an economist and author who chairs the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and co-founded the economics blog Marginal Revolution. Tylercowen's Twitter Score is 296 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #1,135 (top 0.5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.

Tylercowen works at George Mason University and at the Mercatus Center, where he serves as chairman and faculty director. He co-founded Marginal Revolution with Alex Tabarrok, one of the most widely read economics blogs, and also co-founded Marginal Revolution University. He founded Emergent Ventures, an incubator fellowship and grant program supporting social entrepreneurs with highly scalable ideas, and founded Fast Grants as an offshoot of that program. Fast Grants raised more than $50 million and awarded 260 grants toward COVID-19 research. Tylercowen also works at the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.

Tylercowen hosts Conversations with Tyler and writes as a columnist for The Free Press. He previously worked at The New York Times as a columnist and formerly at Bloomberg View as a columnist. His podcast has featured prominent crypto figures, including Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan, in episodes exploring cryptoeconomics and blockchain. Tylercowen has also argued in media that a U.S. crypto reserve could expand the dollar's reach, and co-authored "We Need a New Science of Progress" with Patrick Collison, proposing the field of Progress Studies.

Tylercowen's account has accumulated 359,726 followers as of July 2026 and 40,409 posts. Tylercowen has been mentioned by 785 accounts a total of 4,279 times.

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