Seminar: Tyler Cowen (Professor of Economics at George Mason University, USA), speaks on “The Creative Destruction of Cultures” and “Subsidizing the Film Industry: Pros and Cons”

Monday, May 21, at 11.00 and again at 13.30, Copenhagen Business School

Organized by imagine.. in collaboration with Center for Strategic Management and Globalization (Copenhagen Business School)

Tyler Cowen is general director of the Mercatus Center and holds the Holbert C. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University. Professor Cowen studied economics at George Mason University and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1987 where he was mentored by 2005 Nobel Prize winner, game theorist, and Harvard professor Thomas Schelling. Professor Cowen has published dozens of books, reviews and articles, mostly on the economics of culture, but also on globalization, policy, and libertarianism. His most recent book, the 2005 Markets and Cultural Voices, explains the effect that globalization has had on the lives of Mexican Amate artists. In the 2002 book Creative Destruction, he explores the economics of multiculturalism. What Price Fame?, published in 2000, also plays on Cowen’s love of culture, both pop and classical, revealing the economic implications of today’s fame-driven culture. In his 1998 book, In Praise of Commercial Culture, he looks at the relationship between art and market forces through history. Professor Cowen also has edited multiple works, including the volume of Public Goods and Market Failures, Economic Welfare, and New Theories of Market Failure. He co-authored the 1994 book Explorations in the New Monetary Economics with Randall Kroszner.

The seminars are open to all, no registration is required.