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Alex Tabarrok

Disciplines:
economics
george mason
innovation
healthcare

Summary

Canadian-American economist at George Mason — co-founder of Marginal Revolution (with Tyler Cowen) — co-author of Modern Principles of Economics — who writes on innovation policy, FDA regulation, and healthcare economics.

Core Contribution

Creates the most readable economics textbook in the modern principles tradition — Modern Principles of Economics (with Cowen) applies price theory to unusual questions in a way that makes microeconomics engaging rather than rote.

Notable Works & Achievements

Entrepreneurial Economics

The Voluntary City

Modern Principles of Economics

Launching the Innovation Renaissance

Historical Influences

Friedrich Hayek Tyler Cowen

Intellectual Lineage

Hamilton, OntarioGeorge Mason Marginal Revolution

Contemporaries & Peers

Tyler Cowen Bryan Caplan Garett Jones

Minds Influenced

Economics education

Intellectual Posterity

Marginal Revolution Modern PrinciplesTabarrok curve

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