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Hal Varian

Hal Varian is the Chief Economist at Google. He also holds multiple academic appointments at the University of California Berkeley.

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Personal computers are an example of what economists Timothy Bresnahan and Manuel Trajtenberg call a “general purpose technology (GPT)” in that computers provide a platform on which many other technologies can be...
Hal Varian

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