Hal Varian | |
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| Born | March 18, 1947 |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Microeconomics, information technology |
| Institution | University of California, Berkeley MIT |
| School or tradition | Neoclassical economics |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley MIT |
| 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 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.
Varian joined Google in 2002 as its chief economist. He played a key role in the development of Google's advertising model and data analysis practices.[1]
- ^ Zuboff, Shoshana (2020). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. PublicAffairs. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-61039-570-0.