Google economist Hal Varian addresses the concern that technological growth may have been stagnant since the 1960s, and that Big Tech is responsible for the lack of innovation.  The post Hal Varian: In defense of Big Tech appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

Matthew Feeney and Peter Van Doren interview Hal Varian about his professional experience starting with his economics column at the New York Times. They also cover other topics like the Google search engine, autonomous vehicles, and working in the age of automation. Varian even suggests that problem with autonomous veh

Before he became the Adam Smith of Googlenomics, Hal Varian spent decades as an academic economist, writing influential papers, a popular book about the information economy, and several textbooks that are still taught today. So how has his nearly twenty years in the business world affected what he’d write and teach now

In this episode I talk with Google's chief economist, Hal Varian, about the tech industry, the future of the economy, and much more. The post https://www.aei.org/multimedia/ep-87-googlenomics/ (Ep. 87: Googlenomics— Political Economy with James Pethokoukis) appeared first on https://www.aei.org (American Enterprise Ins

Hal Varian, Google's Chief Economist and University of California at Berkeley professor, talks with Russ Roberts about Google, the role of technology in our everyday lives, the unintended paths of innovation, and the value of economics.