How I Met Tyler Cowen

Abstract

On a recent Lunar Society podcast, Tyler Cowen tells Dwarkesh Patel his version of how we met. Here’s the clip: I have similarly fond memories, though Tyler gets a few facts wrong. I wasn’t in high school when we met; in fact, I had just finished my B.A. And even then I vaguely heard of Tyler’s work as early as 1990, when I did a summer school at the Cato Institute, I didn’t initially “seek him out.” Instead, we met when Tyler did one of the weekly talks for the Institute for Humane Studies summer interns program in 1993. Back in those days, IHS was in Fairfax, so GMU was only a short walk away.