UC-Berkeley dean is next Economics Club speaker

Hal Varian, dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley, will speak at the Economics Club of Hampton Roads luncheon Friday, April 12.

Co-sponsored by the College of Business and Public Administration, the luncheon will begin at noon at the Sheraton Waterside Hotel in downtown Norfolk. Reservations are required. The cost is $30 for nonmembers.

A fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Econometric Society, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Varian is a professor of Economics in UC-Berkeley's Haas School of Business and holds the Class of 1944 Professorship.

He has published numerous papers in financial and information economics, industrial organization, and economic theory. He is the author of two economics textbooks and co-author of a best-selling book on business strategy, titled "Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy."

He has also written columns for The Industry Standard and The New York Times.

Varian received his bachelor's degree from MIT, and his master's in mathematics and doctorate in economics from UC-Berkeley.

For reservations call 683-4058