Hal Varian

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name = Hal Varian
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field = Microeconomics, information technology
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Hal Ronald Varian (born March 18, 1947, in Wooster, Ohio) is an economist specialising in microeconomics and information technology. He is currently on leave from the University of California, Berkeley School of Information, and is Chief Economist at Google. [cite web|url=http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/|title=Hal R. Varian|publisher=U.C. Berkeley|accessdate=2008-09-23] He has written two bestselling textbooks "Intermediate Microeconomics", an undergraduate microeconomics text, and "Microeconomic Analysis", an advanced text. Together with Carl Shapiro, he co-authored "Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy" and "The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction".

He joined Google in 2002 as a consultant, and has worked on the design of advertising auctions, econometric finance, corporate strategy and public policy advice.

He received his B.S. from MIT in economics in 1969 and both his MA (mathematics) and Ph.D. (economics) from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973. He has taught at MIT, Stanford University, the University of Oxford, the University of Michigan, 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.

Hal Varian is the Class of 1944 Professor at the School of Information, the Haas School of Business, and the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1995-2002, he served as the founding dean of UC Berkeley's School of Information.

References

External links

* [http://sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/ Hal Varian's Website]