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Interview with Michael Schwarz, Chief Economist at Microsoft, about auctions, tech and economic theory
Interview with Michael Schwarz, Chief Economist at Microsoft, about auctions, tech and economic theory
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49 minutes
Released:
May 22, 2022
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Podcast episode
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Michael Schwarz leads economics at Microsoft as Corporate Vice President and Chief Economist. A former professor at Harvard, Michael became an early pioneer in tech as part of a larger trend of top PhD economists moving into industry to work on a variety of real world topics related to market design and causal inference. In this interview, we discuss some of his ground breaking work in micro theory and application and the ongoing relevance and power of economic theory for understanding our social and corporate world. Get full access to Scott's Substack at causalinf.substack.com/subscribe
Released:
May 22, 2022
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Podcast episode
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