tylercowen (@tylercowen) — Twitter Score 350 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 350 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #769 (top 0.5%) among 498,348 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 425,211 followers as of October 2026 and 40,791 posts. Tylercowen has been mentioned by 910 accounts a total of 4,542 times.

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