E. Glen Weyl

Overview

E. Glen Weyl (born 1985) is an American economist who leads the Plural Technology Collaboratory at Microsoft Research and has previously held positions at the University of Chicago and the Harvard Society of Fellows.[1][2] He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2008, having graduated valedictorian of his Princeton undergraduate class the year before.[2]

Weyl is best known as co-author, with legal scholar Eric Posner, of Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society (2018), a program of market-design reforms whose lead proposal — the Common Ownership Self-Assessed Tax, popularly known as the Harberger tax — generalizes the Georgist logic of taxing self-assessed land value to property and quasi-property more broadly.[3] He also helped develop quadratic voting and quadratic funding, mechanisms for aggregating preference intensities and allocating public resources.[2]

RadicalxChange

Weyl founded the RadicalxChange Foundation, a nonprofit and movement organization promoting the mechanism-design reforms set out in Radical Markets — including Harberger taxation, quadratic voting, and data-dignity proposals — carrying Georgist-adjacent rent-capture ideas into technology, cryptocurrency, and governance-reform communities alongside figures such as Vitalik Buterin, who separately endorsed the book's proposals for digital-asset reform.[3][4]

See Also

• Radical Markets — the book and reform program Weyl co-authored
• Harberger Tax (COST) — the self-assessment mechanism Weyl helped popularize
• Vitalik Buterin: On Radical Markets — a parallel figure who carried these ideas into crypto circles
• Single Tax — the Georgist precedent Weyl's COST proposal generalizes

Sources

1. E. Glen Weyl, Microsoft Research profile page — used to confirm current affiliation (Microsoft Research, Plural Technology Collaboratory). microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/glenweyl/
2. "Glen Weyl," Wikipedia — used for biographical facts (birth year/place, Princeton Ph.D. and valedictorian undergraduate, Harvard Society of Fellows, University of Chicago, quadratic voting/funding). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Weyl
3. Eric Posner & E. Glen Weyl (2018), Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society, Princeton University Press — used for the COST/Harberger-tax proposal and its explicit framing as a generalization of George's single-tax logic. See wiki page.
4. RadicalxChange Foundation board page, "E. Glen Weyl" — used to confirm his founding role. radicalxchange.org/board/e.-glen-weyl/