Hal Varian
| Hal Varian | |
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| Born | March 18, 1947 Wooster, Ohio |
| Nationality | United States |
| Institution | University of California, Berkeley MIT |
| Field | Microeconomics, information technology |
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Neoclassical economics |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley MIT |
| Influenced | Carl Shapiro |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Hal Ronald Varian (born March 18, 1947 in Wooster, Ohio) is Chief Economist at Google and holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information. Varian is an economist specializing in microeconomics and information economics.
Early life
Hal Varian was born on March 18, 1947 in Wooster, Ohio. He received his B.S. from MIT in economics in 1969 and both his M.A. in mathematics and Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973.
Career
Varian taught at MIT, Stanford University, the University of Oxford, the University of Michigan, the University of Siena and other universities around the world. He has two honorary doctorates, from the University of Oulu, Finland in 2002, and a Dr. h. c. from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, awarded in 2006. He is emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was founding dean of the School of Information.[1]
Varian joined Google in 2002 as chief economist, and has worked on the design of advertising auctions, econometrics, finance, corporate strategy, and public policy.
Varian is the author of two bestselling textbooks: Intermediate Microeconomics,[2] an undergraduate microeconomics text, and Microeconomic Analysis, an advanced text aimed primarily at first-year graduate students in economics. Together with Carl Shapiro, he co-authored Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy and The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction.[3] According to the Open Syllabus Project, Varian is the fourth most frequently cited author on college syllabi for economics courses.[4]
Personal life
Varian is married and has one child, Christopher Max Varian.[5]
See also
References
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External links
- Hal Varian's Website
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- Hal Varian at Google Scholar
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- Appearances on C-SPAN
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- 1947 births
- Living people
- People from Wooster, Ohio
- Haas School of Business faculty
- Google employees
- Microeconomists
- 20th-century American economists
- 21st-century American economists
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- University of Michigan faculty
- Stanford University faculty
- Fellows of the Econometric Society
- MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
- UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellows
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Distinguished Fellows of the American Economic Association
- Economists from Ohio
- University of California, Berkeley School of Information faculty
- Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture speakers
- Fair division researchers
