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Hal Varian

(1947) Economist

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Hal Varian is an economist, best known for Internet publishing and beyond.

Quick Facts About Hal Varian

Born: March 18, 1947
Profession: Economist
Notable works: Internet publishing and beyond

About Hal Varian

Hal Ronald Varian is an American economist and served as a chief economist at Google. He also holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information. Varian is an economist specializing in microeconomics and information economics.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Hal Varian

We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is…

Calories

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If a train stops at a train station, what do you think happens at a work station?

Fitness

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I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding.

Analytics

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Imagine that the blackboard is an N-dimensional manifold.

Imagination

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How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand…

Cleaners

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Brynjolfsson and McAfee take us on a whirlwind tour of innovators and innovations around the world. But this isn't just casual sightseeing.…

Around the world

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I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed…

Computer

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It isn't that information is exploding, but accessibility is. There's just about as much information this year as there was last year;…

Accessibility

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Google will make us more informed. The smartest person in the world could well be behind a plow in China or India.…

Access

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