CULTURE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMYTyler Cowen"Not only does Professor Cowen carry on and expand research in the fields of public choice, monetary economics, Austrian economics, and public economics, but he also ventures, with great competence, into fields such as culture, the role of fame, and, most recently, animal welfare. In so doing, he demonstrates that economics need not be a dismal science at all and that it lends itself to analyses of many of the most important issues of our day."Nils Karlson in the IntroductionTyler Cowen is Professor of economics and Director of the James M Buchanan Center for Political economy at George Mason University, Virginia.The Hans L Zetterberg Lectures series at the City University of Stockholm has been established to honour the distin-guished academic career of Professor Hans L Zetterberg and to reflect both the breadth of scope and the orientation towards the future which has been a hallmark of Professor Zetterberg's intellectual endeavour.