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Hal Varian on Taking the Academic Approach to Business
Hal Varian on Taking the Academic Approach to Business
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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Jun 19, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
Before he became the Adam Smith of Googlenomics, Hal Varian spent decades as an academic economist, writing influential papers, a popular book about the information economy, and several textbooks that are still taught today. So how has his nearly twenty years in the business world affected what he’d write and teach now? Is learning Shephard’s lemma really that important anymore? Tyler asks Hal these questions and more: why aren’t there more second-priced auctions — or prediction markets? How have the economics of sales changed with the internet? In what ways did his hiring criteria change between academia and business? What could we learn from the sack of Rome? When should economists avoid looking at the literature? How are we always eking out victory in the war on spam? And what are people least likely to understand about Google? Fear not — Hal has an answer for it all. Follow Hal on Twitter Follow Tyler on Twitter More CWT goodness: Facebook Twitter Instagram Email
Released:
Jun 19, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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