E. (Eric) Glen Weyl is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and the College and an Associate Member of the Law School at the University of Chicago. In July he will be joining Microsoft Research's New England Lab as a Researcher while on leave from Chicago and in 2016-7 he plans to visit Princeton University as an Associate Research Scholar and Visiting Lecturer.

Glen was born in San Francisco on May, 6 1985 and raised in the Bay Area before attending boarding school at Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut. He was valedictorian of Princeton University's 2007 class, receiving an AB in economics, followed by an MA and PhD in 2008.  He then spent three years as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows before coming to Chicago.

Glen's primary intellectual interests are in pure and applied price theory, with a focus on industrial and public economics, as well as the intersection between economics and other disciplines, particularly law and the history and philosophy of economics. His research addresses topics ranging from the competition policy in insurance markets to optimal policies for redistribution across countries. His largest current project is a variety of work around a new procedure for collective decisions, "Quadratic Voting", including several academic articles, a popular book and a start-up venture Collective Decision Engines that he co-founded with his frequent collaborator, U of C law professor Eric Posner.

Glen has published articles based on this work in journals including American Economic Review, theJournal of Political Economy,the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Northwestern University Law Review and Politics, Philosophy and Economics.  The first (pair of) volume(s) he has edited, Jewish Economies: Development and Migration in America and Beyond (a collection of Simon Kuznets's essays edited jointly with Stephanie Lo) was released by Transaction Publishers in two volumes in 2011/2012 and the second is under contract with the Univeresity of Chicago Press.  He was named a Sloan Foundation Research Fellow for 2014-6.

Outside his academic life, Glen serves on the advisory boards of Esopus, an art magazine, and Applico, a mobile strategy firm.  He is married to Alisha C. Holland, a political scientist who is joining the Harvard Society of Fellows in the fall and Princeton's Politics department in 2016, who he met his freshman year in Latin American politics class.