Tyler Cowen (left, in North Korea) is Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University. His latest book is The Great Stagnation. With Alex Tabarrok, he writes an economics blog at MarginalRevolution.com. He has published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and many other economics journals. He also writes regularly for the popular press, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Forbes, the Wilson Quarterly, Money Magazine, and many other outlets.

Alex Tabarrok (right, in South Korea) is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His latest book is Launching the Innovation Renaissance. His research looks at bounty hunters, judicial incentives and elections, crime control, patent reform, methods to increase the supply of human organs for transplant, and the regulation of pharmaceuticals. He is the editor of the books Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science and The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society, among others. His papers have appeared in the Journal of Law and Economics, Public Choice, Economic Inquiry, the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, the American Law and Economics Review, and many others. Popular articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and many other magazines and newspapers.

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