Glen Weyl Explained

Eric Glen Weyl (born May 6, 1985)[1] is an American economist at Microsoft Research,[2] [3] and a co-author (with Eric Posner) of the book Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society.[4] [5]

Weyl helped create a collective decision-making procedure known as quadratic voting, designed to allow fine-grained expression of how strongly voters feel about an issue, and also a method of democratically disbursing resources known as quadratic funding.[6]

Early life and education

Weyl was born in San Francisco, and grew up in Palo Alto, California.[7] He is Jewish.[8] Growing up, his family favored the Democratic Party. In his youth, Weyl embraced free-market beliefs after being introduced to the works of Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman.[9]

Weyl graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 2003, where he won the Douglass North award for economics and the William Gardner and Mary Atwater Choate Award for outstanding male scholar.[10] He went on to attend Princeton University, where four years later, he was valedictorian of the class of 2007; while still an undergraduate, he completed the required coursework and exams for a doctoral degree in economics, which he received the next year, under the supervision of Jean Tirole, José Scheinkman, Hyun-Song Shin, and Roland Bénabou.[11]

Career

After receiving his PhD, Weyl spent three years as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and another three years as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, before joining Microsoft Research as an economist and researcher. He also teaches a course at Yale University, titled "Designing the Digital Economy," that blends economics and computer science in much the way that digital economists blend them at tech companies.[12]

Selected bibliography

Articles

Personal life

Weyl married Alisha Caroline Holland in 2010.[15] They met in 2003 during their first year at Princeton.[16], Holland worked at Princeton as an Associate Professor of Politics.[17]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Glen Weyl, Microsoft Biography. Microsoft Research. 20 July 2018.
  2. News: A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive. Coy. Peter. 1 May 2019. 8 August 2019. Bloomberg.
  3. Web site: Glen Weyl. Microsoft Research. en-US. 2019-07-28.
  4. Web site: Glen Weyl Biography. en-US. 2019-07-28. 2020-07-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20200728174257/http://glenweyl.com/biography/. dead.
  5. Economist Glen Weyl on Three Radical Paths to Equality. September 18, 2018. Wired.
  6. Buterin. Vitalik. Hitzig. Zoë. Weyl. E. Glen. 2018-12-01. Liberal Radicalism: A Flexible Design For Philanthropic Matching Funds. en. Rochester, NY. 3243656 .
  7. News: Valedictorian capitalizes on time at Princeton. Quiñones. Eric. May 28, 2007. 19 July 2018. Princeton University.
  8. News: Gabe . Friedman . The 'lifelong Zionists' who called for an Israel boycott. In a Washington Post op-ed, professors Steven Levitsky and Glen Weyl urged economic sanctions on Jewish state . The Times of Israel. October 27, 2015 . An Op-Ed co-written last Friday by two American Jewish professors has stirred Internet controversy, with the focus largely on their use of four words: “We are lifelong Zionists.”.
  9. News: Demolishing Monopoly From Below: How Two Radicals Would Remake Markets. Ip. Greg. June 13, 2018. The Wall Street Journal. 19 July 2018.
  10. Web site: Glen Weyl '03 Selected Princeton Valedictorian. June 24, 2007. Choate Rosemary Hall. 18 July 2018.
  11. https://epge.fgv.br/files/default/cv-glen-weyl.pdf
  12. News: Goodbye, Ivory Tower. Hello, Silicon Valley Candy Store.. Lohr. Steve. 3 September 2016. 8 August 2019. New York Times.
  13. A Price Theory of Multi-sided Platforms . 2010 . 10.1257/aer.100.4.1642. Weyl . E. Glen . American Economic Review . 100 . 4 . 1642–1672 . 154969943 .
  14. Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving beyond "Free". Imanol. Arrieta-Ibarra. Leonard. Goff. Diego. Jiménez-Hernández. Jaron. Lanier. E. Glen. Weyl. May 30, 2018. AEA Papers and Proceedings. 108. 38–42. Apr 30, 2023. www.aeaweb.org. 10.1257/pandp.20181003.
  15. News: Alisha Holland and Glen Weyl. Radomsky. Rosalie. August 20, 2010. The New York Times. 18 July 2018.
  16. News: The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: The Student of Latin American Politics Who Wants to Understand Inaction. Andrews. Avital. April 17, 2014. Pacific Standard. 20 July 2018.
  17. Web site: Alisha Holland - Department of Politics at Princeton University. Princeton University. 20 July 2018.

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