Hal Varian
Hal Varian | |
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| Born | March 18, 1947 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Microeconomics, information technology |
| Institution | Google UC Berkeley University of Michigan MIT |
| School or tradition | Neoclassical economics |
| Alma mater | MIT UC Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel McFadden David Gale |
| Doctoral students | Earl Grinols James Andreoni |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Hal Ronald Varian (born March 18, 1947 in Wooster, Ohio) is an economist specializing in microeconomics and information economics. He is the chief economist at Google and he holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information.
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. (mathematics) and Ph.D. (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 a consultant, and has worked on the design of advertising auctions, econometrics, finance, corporate strategy, and public policy. He is the chief economist at Google.
Varian is the author of two bestselling textbooks: Intermediate Microeconomics, 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.
Personal life
Varian is married and has one child, Christopher Max Varian.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Hal R. Varian". U.C. Berkeley. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
- ^ Curriculum vitae (PDF; 122 kB), on berkeley.edu.
External links
- Hal Varian's Website
- Position Auctions
- Roberts, Russ (July 28, 2008). "Varian on Technology". EconTalk. Library of Economics and Liberty.
- 1947 births
- Living people
- People from Wooster, Ohio
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- Google employees
- Microeconomists
- American economists
- 20th-century economists
- 21st-century economists
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- University of Michigan faculty
- Stanford University faculty
- Fellows of the Econometric Society
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellows
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Distinguished Fellows of the American Economic Association