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E. (Eric) Glen Weyl is an American economist.

Early life
Weyl was born on May 6, 1985, in San Francisco, and grew up in Palo Alto, California. His family favored the Democratic Party, but Weyl grew towards Republican free market principles after being introduced to the works of Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman.

Education
Weyl graduated Choate Rosemary Hall prepatory high school in 2003, where he won the Douglass North award for economics, and the William Gardner and Mary Atwater Choate Award for outstanding male scholar. He went on to attend Princeton University, where four years later, he had completed all his coursework and exams for a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, as well as being selected as class of 2007 valedictorian. His teacher at Princeton, José Scheinkman, called him "the most impressive undergraduate with whom [he had] ever worked in 30-plus years".

Publications
Weyl's book, Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society (Princeton University Press, May 15, 2018, ISBN 978-0691177502), written with Eric Posner, proposes radical market-based solutions to solve current social problems such as economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability, which the authors believe are based on monopoly power. The book proposes requiring all property owners to name the price they would sell that property at, then taxing them based on that value. This would both ensure that all property be used in the most efficient way, and would provide a large social dividend to society. The book would have tech companies that gather personal data pay its users for that data. And for democratic government, it recommends quadratic voting, giving each voter a vote budget that can be spent more heavily on issues they care more about.

Personal life
Weyl married Alisha Caroline Holland in 2010. They met in 2003, during their first year at Princeton, where they were each exceptional students: he as class valedictorian, she as the winner of the Moses Taylor Pyne Prize, the highest distinction awarded an undergraduate. Holland works at Princeton as an Associate Professor of Politics.

References to mine

 * http://glenweyl.com/media/