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19 Jun 2019 Conversations with Tyler Hal Varian on Taking the Academic Approach to Business

“Not so much in tech, I would say, but maybe in finance and Wall Street guys, I think.”

— Hal Varian

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Hal Varian
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belief
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19 Jun 2019
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Do the billionaires envy each other more than poorer people envy billionaires? There seems to be something of a pecking order there. It depends. Not so much in tech, I would say, but maybe in finance and Wall Street guys, I think. It’s a motivation that’s different than we see on the West Coast. A few questions about education. You’ve written the most frequently used graduate economics text for many years. Do we still need to teach Shephard’s lemma and duality in first year PhD micro?…

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