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,[2] and also a method of democratically disbursing resources known as quadratic funding.[6]
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]
"Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving beyond 'Free'",[13] American Economic Association / aeaweb.org (2018, with Imanol Arrieta-Ibarra, Leonard Goff, Diego Jiménez-Hernández, and Jaron Lanier)
"A proposal to limit the anti-competitive power of institutional investors", Antitrust Law Journal (2017, with FM Scott Morton)
"Pass-through as an economic tool: Principles of incidence under imperfect competition", Journal of Political Economy (2013, with M Fabinger)
Weyl married Alisha Caroline Holland in 2010.[15] They met in 2003 during their first year at Princeton.[16]As of 2018[update], Holland worked at Princeton as an associate professor of politics.[17]
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