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Eric Glen Weyl (born May 6, 1985)[1] is an American economist at Microsoft Research,[2][3] and a co-author (with Eric Posner) of the book Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society.[4][5]

Weyl helped create a collective decision-making procedure known as quadratic voting, designed to allow fine-grained expression of how strongly voters feel about an issue,[2] and also a method of democratically disbursing resources known as quadratic funding.[6]

Early life and education

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Weyl was born in San Francisco,[1] and grew up in Palo Alto, California.[7] He is Jewish.[8] Growing up, his family favored the Democratic Party. In his youth, Weyl embraced free-market beliefs after being introduced to the works of Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman.[9]

Weyl graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 2003, where he won the Douglass North award for economics and the William Gardner and Mary Atwater Choate Award for outstanding male scholar.[10] He went on to attend Princeton University, where four years later, he was valedictorian of the class of 2007; while still an undergraduate, he completed the required coursework and exams for a doctoral degree in economics, which he received the next year, under the supervision of Jean Tirole, José Scheinkman, Hyun-Song Shin, and Roland Bénabou.[7][11]

Career

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After receiving his PhD, Weyl spent three years as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and another three years as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, before joining Microsoft Research as an economist and researcher. He also teaches a course at Yale University, titled "Designing the Digital Economy," that blends economics and computer science in much the way that digital economists blend them at tech companies.[12]

Selected bibliography

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  • Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society (Princeton University Press, May 15, 2018, ISBN 978-0691177502), written with Eric Posner[9]

Articles

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  • "A price theory of multi-sided platforms", American Economic Review (2010)[13]
  • "Pass-through as an economic tool: Principles of incidence under imperfect competition", Journal of Political Economy (2013, with M Fabinger)
  • "A proposal to limit the anti-competitive power of institutional investors", Antitrust Law Journal (2017, with FM Scott Morton)
  • "Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving beyond 'Free'",[14] American Economic Association / aeaweb.org (2018, with Imanol Arrieta-Ibarra, Leonard Goff, Diego Jiménez-Hernández, and Jaron Lanier)

Personal life

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Weyl married Alisha Caroline Holland in 2010.[15] They met in 2003 during their first year at Princeton.[16] As of 2018, Holland worked at Princeton as an Associate Professor of Politics.[17]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Glen Weyl, Microsoft Biography". Microsoft Research. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  2. ^ a b Coy, Peter (1 May 2019). "A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive". Bloomberg. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Glen Weyl". Microsoft Research. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  4. ^ "Glen Weyl | Biography". Archived from the original on 2020-07-28. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  5. ^ "Economist Glen Weyl on Three Radical Paths to Equality". Wired. September 18, 2018.
  6. ^ Buterin, Vitalik; Hitzig, Zoë; Weyl, E. Glen (2018-12-01). "Liberal Radicalism: A Flexible Design For Philanthropic Matching Funds". Rochester, NY. SSRN 3243656.
  7. ^ a b Quiñones, Eric (May 28, 2007). "Valedictorian capitalizes on time at Princeton". Princeton University. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  8. ^ Friedman, Gabe (October 27, 2015). "The 'lifelong Zionists' who called for an Israel boycott. In a Washington Post op-ed, professors Steven Levitsky and Glen Weyl urged economic sanctions on Jewish state". The Times of Israel. An Op-Ed co-written last Friday by two American Jewish professors has stirred Internet controversy, with the focus largely on their use of four words: "We are lifelong Zionists."
  9. ^ a b Ip, Greg (June 13, 2018). "Demolishing Monopoly From Below: How Two Radicals Would Remake Markets". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  10. ^ "Glen Weyl '03 Selected Princeton Valedictorian". Choate Rosemary Hall. June 24, 2007. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  11. ^ "Curriculum Vitae - Glen Weyl" (PDF). epge.fgv.br.
  12. ^ Lohr, Steve (3 September 2016). "Goodbye, Ivory Tower. Hello, Silicon Valley Candy Store". New York Times. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  13. ^ Weyl, E. Glen (2010). "A Price Theory of Multi-sided Platforms". American Economic Review. 100 (4): 1642–1672. doi:10.1257/aer.100.4.1642. S2CID 154969943.
  14. ^ Arrieta-Ibarra, Imanol; Goff, Leonard; Jiménez-Hernández, Diego; Lanier, Jaron; Weyl, E. Glen (May 30, 2018). "Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving beyond "Free"". AEA Papers and Proceedings. 108: 38–42. doi:10.1257/pandp.20181003. Retrieved Apr 30, 2023 – via www.aeaweb.org.
  15. ^ Radomsky, Rosalie (August 20, 2010). "Alisha Holland and Glen Weyl". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  16. ^ Andrews, Avital (April 17, 2014). "The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: The Student of Latin American Politics Who Wants to Understand Inaction". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  17. ^ "Alisha Holland - Department of Politics at Princeton University". Princeton University. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
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