Tyler Cowen
Entrepreneur
Served as the Holbert C. Harris Chair of economics at George Mason University and co-authored economics blog Marginal Revolution.
He was New Jersey's state chess champion when he was 15 years old.
He was one of the most influential economists of the past decade. He wrote the Economic Scene column for The New York Times and was the general director of George Mason's Mercatus Center.
He married the lawyer Natasha Cowen.
He was #72 on the Top 100 Global Thinkers list from Foreign Policy Magazine in 2011. Ben Bernanke was #10.