Hal Varian
Hal Ronald Varian (born March 18, 1947 in Wooster , Ohio ) is an American economist . Varian has been the chief economist for Google Inc. since July 2007 .
Live and act
After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree from MIT in 1969, Varian received a Masters degree in Mathematics and a Ph. D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973 . From 2000 to 2007 he wrote a monthly column for the New York Times .
Varian was a professor at the School of Information Management and Systems and the Haas School of Business and Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He also took on other teaching assignments. a. at the University of Michigan , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Stanford University . For his research and publication activities, he received honorary doctorates from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Oulu in Finland . Since 2007 he has been chief economist at Google Inc.
One focus of Varian's work is the information economy , which he examines particularly in connection with new media . In his early career, he also dealt extensively with welfare economics and theories of justice .
Varian is the author of two textbooks that are widely used in economics education ( "Intermediate Microeconomics" and "Microeconomic Analysis" ). In these teaching materials, the institutional-legal embedding and shaping of market processes only occurs in the form of denying their necessity. Both the state and the trade unions are attested to ineffectiveness, waste of resources and questionable intentions in attempts to influence market forces "from outside". Ecological and socio-political issues played no role, public goods are only dealt with marginally.
In 1995 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Varian is married with one child.
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- Paul F. Wendt , Hal Varian: A note on Hoyt's `Importance of real estate in basic employment ' . In: Land Economics . tape 46 , no. 3 . University of Wisconsin Press , 1970, ISSN 0023-7639 , pp. 350-354 , doi : 10.2307 / 3145395 (first scientific publication).
- Hal Varian: Microeconomic Analysis . 3. Edition. WW Norton & Company , New York 1992, ISBN 0-393-96026-9 .
- Carl Shapiro , Hal Varian: Information Rules . Harvard Business Review Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-87584-863-1 .
- Hal Varian: Fundamentals of Microeconomics . 8th edition. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag , Munich 2013, ISBN 3-486-70453-2 (American English: Intermediate Microeconomics .).
literature
- Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 3rd edition, Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 1999, ISBN 1-85898-886-1 , p. 1130
Web links
- Homepage of Hal Varian
- Literature by and about Hal Varian in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b CV (PDF; 122 kB), on berkeley.edu (English).
- ^ Economics According to Google , Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2007.
- ↑ Articles by Hal R. Varian , on berkeley.edu .
- ↑ A question of price , brand eins 10/2000.
- ↑ Helge Peukert, Christian Rebhan: A critical analysis of introductions to micro and macroeconomics and plural heterodox alternative textbooks December 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Varian, Hal |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Varian, Hal Ronald (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wooster , Ohio |