E. (Eric) Glen Weyl is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and the College, a member of the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies and an affiliate of the Center for Latin American Studies all at the University of Chicago. He also spends each June in Toulouse, France as a fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
Mr. Weyl's primary intellectual interests are in pure and applied price theory, with a focus on industrial organization, as well as the intersection between economics and other disciplines, particularly history, philosophy and evolutionary biology. His research addresses topics ranging from the career choices of talented students to the design of institutions for property takings (eminent domain).
He has written on demand theory, as well as political philosophy, the evolution of cooperation and the economics of multi-sided platforms. His first book, Jewish Economies: Development and Migration in American and Beyond (a collection of Simon Kuznets's essays edited jointly with Stephanie Lo), is forthcoming in two volumes from Transaction Publishers in April, 2011.
Mr. Weyl's current research includes studying the role of materialistic creative genius in justifying the institution of entrepreneurship; competition of multi-sided platforms; and the "first-order" approach to merger analysis implemented in the draft United States Horizontal Merger Guidelines.
Mr. Weyl has been an academic visitor at universities and ministries in Brazil, Chile and Mexico, as well as a research intern at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
Degree(s):
A.B., Economics, Princeton University
M.A., Economics, Princeton University
Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University
