Economist, Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at George Mason University

Fairfax, VA, USA
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Alex Tabarrok Biography

Alex Tabarrok holds the Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center and is a professor of economics at George Mason University and research fellow with the Mercatus Center. Tabarrok’s research interests include empirical law and economics (crime, tort reform, bounty hunters, judicial electoral systems etc.), voting theory and alternative political institutions, health economics and more.

During COVID Tabarrok was an advisor to the US government on using incentives to accelerate vaccine development and production. Along with Michael Kremer and other members of the Accelerating Health Technologies group, he helped to develop a model for the US government on allocating funds to a vaccine portfolio. The model is discussed in Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability, especially the appendix. The AHT group also published Market design to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine supply and Testing Fractional Doses of COVID-19 Vaccines. Tabarrok also published Is it Possible to Prepare for a Pandemic? and Covid in the nursing homes: the US experience among other papers. During COVID, Alex Tabarrok was a prominent public proponent of first doses first, fractional dosing, rapid tests and human challenge trials, among other policies, meant to accelerate response to the crisis.

Alex Tabarrok is the author with Tyler Cowen of the bestselling textbook, Modern Principles of Economics, and the co-founder with Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution University, an online platform for learning economics. He writes regularly at the blog, Marginal Revolution.

Alex Tabarrok is a consultant and advisor to firms, especially but not exclusively, in the blockchain space including LBRY, Wireline, Elrond and TEAL among others. Please contact for discussion of rates and further information.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 05/18/2026.

Alex Tabarrok Videos

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