Books by Hal R. Varian

The Economics of Information Technology

(with Joe Farrell and Carl Shapiro) This is a brief introductionn to some of the economic forces associated with information technology. It is part of the Raffaele Mattioli Lectures given at Bocconi Business School in Milan.

Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

(with Carl Shapiro) This is a book about how to use economics to think about competitive strategy in high-tech industries. We examine pricing of information, lockin, networks, positive feedback, systems competition, standards, intellectual property, electronic markets, etc. Harvard Business School Press, November, 1998. For more information, see the Information Rules website.

Internet Publishing and Beyond

Co-edited with Brian Kahin. A collection of papers from a conference held at Harvard in 1996.

Variants in Economic Theory

This is a collection of selected works, along with some biographical reflections.

Fostering Research on the Economic and Social Impacts of Information Technology [HTML and Image] [PDF]

The National Science Foundation asked the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council to gather perspectives on fruitful approaches to assessment of the impacts of using information technology. CSTB formed the multidisciplinary Steering Committee on Research Opportunities Relating to Economic and Social Impacts of Computing and Communications, and organized a workshop that was held on June 30-July 1, 1997. Hal R. Varian was chair of the committee that drafted this report.

Microeconomic Analysis

Graduate textbook in microeconomics, W. W. Norton and Company, 1978. Second edition, 1987. Third edition, 1992. Translated into Spanish, German, Japanese, French. You may also be interested in the Errata for Microeconomics Analysis [TeX] [PDF] [HTML]. [Publisher's description.]

Mathematica Notebooks to Accompany Microeconomic Analysis

This is a set of Mathematica Notebooks that describe various calculations used in Microeonomic Analysis.

Intermediate Microeconomics

Undergraduate textbook in microeconomics. W. W. Norton and Company 1987. Second edition 1990. Third edition 1993. Translated into Spanish, Italian, French, German, Hungarian, Portugese, Polish, Japanese, Chinese. Fourth English edition 1996. Fifth English edition 1999. Russian translation, in progress. Here is are chapter-by-chapter lecture notes in PDF format. You may also be interested in the Errata for Intermediate Microeconomics [TeX] [PDF] [HTML]. [Publishers's description .]

Microeconomic Workouts

(with Theodore Bergstrom) Exercises for Intermediate Microeconomics. W. W. Norton and Company, 1987. Second edition, 1990. Third edition 1993. Fourth edition 1996. Translated into Spanish, Italian, German.[Publisher's description.]

Economic and Financial Modeling with Mathematica

(editor) Collection of articles showing how to use the computer language Mathematica for economic and financial applications. [Notebooks]

Computational Economics and Finance: Modeling and Analysis with Mathematica

(editor) Collection of articles showing how to use the computer language Mathematica for economic and financial applications. [Notebooks]