Hal R. Varian

ThinkersBorn 1947Economist

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Microeconomist and information economist, founding dean of the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, and later chief economist at Google. With Carl Shapiro he wrote Information Rules, which applies standard economics to information goods: versioning, lock-in and switching costs, standards, and network effects with positive feedback.

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