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E. (Eric) Glen Weyl is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and the College, a member of the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies and an affiliate of the Center for Latin American Studies all at the University of Chicago. He also spends each June in Toulouse, France as a fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
Glen was born in San Francisco on May, 6 1985 and raised in the Bay Area before attending boarding school at Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut. He was valedictorian of Princeton University's 2007 class, receiving an AB in economics, followed by an MA and PhD in 2008. He then spent three years as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Glen's primary intellectual interests are in pure and applied price theory, with a focus on industrial and public economics, as well as the intersection between economics and other disciplines, particularly philosophy, history and evolutionary biology. His research, which he has presented at more than a hundred venues on four continents, addresses topics ranging from the career choices of talented students to the appropriate role of market power in rewarding innovation.
Glen has published articles on political philosophy, the evolution of cooperation, the economics of multi-sided platforms and demand theory in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Economics Letters, the American Economic Review and the B. E. Journal of Theoretical Economics Advances tier. The first volume ("The Economic Life of American Jewry") of his first book, Jewish Economies: Development and Migration in American and Beyond (a collection of Simon Kuznets's essays edited jointly with Stephanie Lo), was released by Transaction Publishers in November; the second volume will be released in early 2012. His current research includes:
Glen teaches the second quarter of intermediate microeconomics and is a guest lecturer in Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy's Price Theory (introductory graduate microeconomics) course. He was co-chair of the dissertation committee of Alexander White at TSE, a member of the committee of Scott Duke Kominers at Harvard University and was the advisor of William Weingarten's senior thesis at Harvard and is currently advising the dissertations of Andre Veiga at TSE and Michal Fabinger at Harvard. He is also a referee for dozens of scholarly journals including the American Economic Review, from which he has twice received an award for excellence. He has been an academic visitor and advisor at universities and ministries in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Perú, as well as a research intern at the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division and has received grants to support his research from the Milton Fund, the Harvard Real Estate Academic Initiative, the Sloan Foundation and Microsoft Corporation.
Outside his academic life, Glen serves on the advisory board of Esopus, an art magazine. He is married to Alisha C. Holland, his girlfriend since freshman year of college and a Harvard Ph. D. student in government. |
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and in the College at the University of Chicago where I do research in economics and related fields, including philosophy and the history of economics.
