--- title: "Alex Tabarrok · AI Fault Line" url: https://aifaultline.com/authors/alex-tabarrok/ description: "AI Fault Line is a neutral, evidence-cited field guide to why experts looking at the same developments disagree about AI's effect on productivity, jobs, inequality, regulation and the pace of change." --- [Researchers](https://aifaultline.com/authors/) # Alex Tabarrok Economist, George Mason University Signed the letter · Academia · United States [homepage](https://alextabarrok.com/) · [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Tabarrok) Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center. Co-author with Tyler Cowen of the Marginal Revolution blog and the textbook Modern Principles of Economics, and co-founder of Marginal Revolution University. Has written on patent reform, pharmaceutical regulation, health policy and voting systems; during the pandemic he advised the US government on incentives to accelerate vaccine production. PhD in economics from George Mason University. Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter. [AI-written](https://aifaultline.com/about/) Documented facts only, from the sources below. 10 works in the co-authorship map · 464 citations across them Sources 1. [Alex Tabarrok - Mercatus Center biography](https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/alex-tabarrok) 2. [About Marginal Revolution](https://marginalrevolution.com/about) 3. [Market design to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine supply](https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg0889) 4. “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter” — [source](https://wemustactnow.ai) ## In the network 7 co-authors on the map · PageRank #80 of 400 · bridge #85 of 400 · 2 steps from Erik Brynjolfsson · [cluster: Market design and field experiments](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#cluster=5). Measured on this map only, which grows out of the letter's signatories; [what these numbers mean](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#about). [See Alex Tabarrok on the map](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#map=alex-tabarrok) ## Documented positions [Will AI actually boost productivity and growth?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/productivity/) unknown No documented evidence reviewed yet. [Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/jobs/) unknown No documented evidence reviewed yet. [Will AI widen inequality?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/inequality/) unknown No documented evidence reviewed yet. [Should governments act on AI now?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/regulation/) unknown No documented evidence reviewed yet. [How fast will the impact arrive?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/pace/) unknown No documented evidence reviewed yet. ## Selected work - [Market design to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine supply](https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg0889) - [Is regulation to blame for the decline in American entrepreneurship?](https://doi.org/10.1093/epolic/eix019) ## Writes with [Scott Duke Kominers](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#map=scott-kominers) (3), [Eric Budish](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#map=eric-budish) (2), [J. C. Castillo](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#map=castillo) (2), [Michael Kremer](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#map=michael-kremer) (2), [Susan Athey](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#map=susan-athey) (2), [Tyler Cowen](https://aifaultline.com/authors/tyler-cowen/) (2), [Nathan Goldschlag](https://aifaultline.com/authors/network/#map=nathan-goldschlag) (1) Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (7 of 7 shown). Something wrong? [Request a correction](https://github.com/bob-rietveld/wemustactnow/issues).