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19 Jun 2019 Conversations with Tyler Hal Varian on Taking the Academic Approach to Business
“The economics of sales has really found its home on the internet because you look at users: Some people search for the lowest price, and they have all these tools to find it.”
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- 19 Jun 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Now that we have the internet, how has the economics of sales changed? The economics of sales has really found its home on the internet because you look at users: Some people search for the lowest price, and they have all these tools to find it. Some people just buy on an as-needed basis. So you’ve got these two segments of the population that fit the model that I wrote in 1980 really quite nicely. Should we be more or less worried about the economics of price discrimination, given the internet?…
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