Matthew Feeney and Peter Van Doren interview Hal Varian about his professional experience starting with his economics column at the New York Times. They also cover other topics like the Google search engine, autonomous vehicles, and working in the age of automation. Varian even suggests that problem with autonomous vehicles is not the vehicle, but the humans that interfere with them.

Is there a market for search engines? How do people use search engines? Is Google a monopoly? Which country has the shortest workweek in the developed world? Is our labor market tightening?

Further Reading:

Sometimes the Stock Does Better Than the Investor That Buys the Stock, written by Hal R. Varian

Googlenomics: A long-read Q&A with chief economist Hal Varian, written by James Pethokoukis

Google chief economist Hal Varian says a robot isn’t after your job, written by Olivera Perkins

Hal Varian on Taking the Academic Approach to Business (Ep. 69), Conversations with Tyler

Related Content:

Will Artificial Intelligence Take Your Job?, Building Tomorrow Podcast

Does More Technology Create Unemployment?, written by A.D. Sharplin and R. H. Mabry

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence is Best Left to Researchers, written by Ryan Khurana

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