Alex Tabarrok
Alex Tabarrok | |
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 Tabarrok speaking atTEDin 2009. Photograph by Bill Holsinger-Robinson. | |
| Born | November 11, 1966 |
| Nationality | Canadian American |
| Academic career | |
| Institution | George Mason University |
| Alma mater | George Mason University |
Alexander Taghi Tabarrok(born November 11, 1966) is aCanadian-Americaneconomist.Tabarrok is a professor atVirginia'sGeorge Mason Universityand Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the school'sMercatus Center.[1]
WithTyler Cowen,he co-authors the economics blogMarginal Revolution.Tabarrok and Cowen have also ventured intoonline educationwithMarginal Revolution University.
From 1999 until 2013 he was director of research for theOakland, Californiabasedthink tanktheIndependent Institute.[2]
He completed his undergraduate studies at theUniversity of Victoriain Canada and received hisPh.D.fromGeorge Mason Universityin 1994.[2]
He has done work ondominant assurance contracts,[3]law and economics,andhealth economics.
In 2012, journalistDavid Brookscalled Tabarrok one of the most influential bloggers on the political right, writing that he is among those who "start from broadlylibertarianpremises but do not apply them in a doctrinaire way. "[4]
References
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- ^"Alex Tabarrok's Home Page".mason.gmu.edu.Retrieved2023-05-11.
- ^ab"Curriculum Vitae of Alex Tabarrok"(PDF).
- ^Tabarrok. 1998. The private provision of public goods via dominant assurance contracts. Public Choice. 96, 345-362.
- ^Brooks, David (2012-11-19)."The Conservative Future".New York Times.Retrieved28 November2012.
