Modern Principles of Economics (4th Edition) – eBook

About The Author

Alex Tabarrok

Dr. Alexander Taghi Tabarrok is a Canadian-American economist. Alex Tabarrok is a Virginia's George Mason University professor and Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the school's Mercatus Center.

From 1999 until 2013, he was director of research for the Oakland, California-based think tank the Independent Institute. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Victoria, Canada.His doctoral studies were done at George Mason University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1994.

He has done work on dominant assurance contracts, law and economics, and health economics. In 2012, journalist David Brooks called Tabarrok one of the most influential bloggers on the political right, writing that he is among those who "start from broadly libertarian premises but do not apply them in a doctrinaire way."

Tyler Cowen

Dr. Tyler Cowen holds the Holbert C. Harris chair in economics at George Mason University. He is the author of Discover Your Inner Economist, Create Your Own Economy, An Economist Get Lunch (2012), Average is Over (2013), the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation (2011), and several academic books. He writes the most-read economics blog worldwide, marginalrevolution.com. He has written regularly for The NYT and contributes to many newspapers and periodicals.