Books by Hal R. Varian
You can order these books at http://www.inforules.com/other.htm.
- 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]