Hal Ronald Varian (born March 18, 1947 in

Wooster, Ohio Wooster ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Wayne County. Located in northeastern Ohio, the city lies approximately south-southwest of Cleveland, southwest of Akron and west of Canton. The population was 27,232 at ...

) is Chief Economist at

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and holds the title of emeritus professor at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

where he was founding dean of the School of Information. Varian is an economist specializing in microeconomics and information economics.

Early life

Hal Varian was born on March 18, 1947 in

. He received his B.S. from MIT in economics in 1969 and both his M.A. in mathematics and Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973.

Career

Varian taught at MIT, Stanford University, the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in contin ...

, the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, the

University of Siena The University of Siena ( it, Università degli Studi di Siena, abbreviation: UNISI) in Siena, Tuscany, is one of the oldest and first publicly funded universities in Italy. Originally called ''Studium Senese'', the institution was founded in 1240 ...

and other universities around the world. He has two honorary doctorates, from the University of Oulu,

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in 2002, and a Dr. h. c. from the

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...

(KIT), Germany, awarded in 2006. He is emeritus professor at the

, where he was founding dean of the School of Information. Varian joined Google in 2002 as chief economist, and has worked on the design of advertising auctions, econometrics, finance, corporate strategy, and public policy. 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 Carl Shapiro (born 20 March 1955) is an American economist and academic who serves as the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He is the co-author, along with Hal Var ...

, he co-authored ''Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy'' and ''The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction''. According to the

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, Varian is the fourth most frequently cited author on college syllabi for economics courses.

Personal life

Varian is married and has one child, Christopher Max Varian.Curriculum vitae
(PDF; 122 kB), o
berkeley.edu

References

External links

Hal Varian's Website

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