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E. Glen Weyl

Senior Researcher

Microsoft Research New York City

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E. (Eric) Glen Weyl is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New York City. He is visiting Yale University this fall as a Visiting Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in the economics department and law school, where he is teaching a joint economics-computer science course, “Designing the Digital Economy”.  

 

Weyl was valedictorian of Princeton University’s 2007 class, receiving an AB in economics, followed by an M.A. and Ph.D. in 2008. He then spent three years as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and three years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago before joining Microsoft. He is a Sloan Research Fellow 2014-2018.

 

Weyl’s research aims to draw on tools from adjacent disciplines, such as law, computer science, and philosophy, to develop practical proposals to expand the scope of efficient markets. For example, Weyl developed a market mechanism for group decision-making, Quadratic Voting (QV), and has proposed a replacement for private property that combats its tendency to create monopoly power.  

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Weyl has published articles based on this work in journals including American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Northwestern University Law Review, and Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

 

Weyl is also co-founder, with University of Chicago law professor Eric Posner (his frequent collaborator) and with Kevin Slavin, a professor at the MIT Media Lab of Collective Decision Engines, of a start-up that commercializes QV for market research applications.

 

Outside his academic life, Weyl serves on the advisory boards of Esopus, an art magazine.