E. Glen Weyl
Visiting Fellow, Oct. 4–8, 2010
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
E. Glen Weyl's primary research interests are in pure and applied price theory, focusing on industrial organization. His article "A Price Theory of Multi-Sided Platforms" is forthcoming in the American Economic Review. Other work has explored innovation, merger and tax policy.
He also is interested in the intersection between economics and other disciplines ranging from philosophy to evolutionary biology. “Whose Rights,” his critique of the individualist assumptions that underlie liberal theories of rights, was published in Politics, Philosophy and Economics in 2009. He has coauthored a paper with three biologists using the economic theory of employment contracts to understand mechanisms of mutualism, where relationships between different plants, animals, or organisms benefit both species. The article is forthcoming in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Weyl currently is a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He has been a visiting researcher at the Toulouse School of Economics since 2008, and a Becker Center Price Theory Scholar at the University of Chicago in 2007–08. He has received research awards from the Sloan Foundation and Microsoft Corporation and won the American Economic Review Excellence in Refereeing award in 2010.
Weyl earned his master’s and PhD in economics at Princeton University in 2008, just one year after graduating from there as Valedictorian of his undergraduate class.