Alex Tabarrok

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Alex Tabarrok
Tabarrok speaking at TED in 2009. Photograph by Bill Holsinger-Robinson.
Born	(1966-11-11) November 11, 1966 (age 54)
Nationality	Canadian American
Institution	George Mason University
Alma mater	George Mason University

Alexander Taghi Tabarrok (born November 11, 1966) is a Canadian-American economist. With Tyler Cowen, he co-authors the economics blog Marginal Revolution. Tabarrok and Cowen have also ventured into online education with Marginal Revolution University.

Tabarrok is a professor at Virginia's George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the school's Mercatus Center. In addition, Tabarrok is director of research for the Oakland, California based think tank the Independent Institute. He is the son of the late mechanical engineering professor Behrooz (Bez) Tabarrok.

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. He has two sons named Connor and Maxwell Tabarrok.

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."^[1]

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• Tabarrok's GMU home page
• Tabarrok's bio at the Mercatus Center
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Roberts, Russ. "Alex Tabarrok Podcasts". EconTalk. Library of Economics and Liberty.
• Alex Tabarrok at TED