Information Economics

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John Chuang

Professor
Biosensory computing; climate informatics; information economics and policy

Recent Publications

(Machine) Learning What Policymakers Value
Early marks: American trademarks before US trademark law
Why Do Defaults Affect Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
Context, Causality, and Information Flow: Implications for Privacy Engineering, Security, and Data Economics

The creators of technical infrastructure are under social and legal pressure to comply with expectations that can be difficult to translate into computational and business logics. This dissertation bridges this gap through three projects that focus on privacy engineering, information security, and data economics, respectively. These projects culminate in a new formal method for evaluating the strategic and tactical value of data: data games. This method relies on a core theoretical contribution building on the work of Shannon, Dretske, Pearl, Koller, and Nissenbaum: a definition of situated information flow as causal flow in the context of other causal relations and strategic choices.

China’s long game in techno-nationalism
Decision Making Under Radical Uncertainty: A Multiple Case Comparison of Companies Creating New Technologies Featuring New Forms of Personal Data
The new world of data: Four provocations on the Internet of Things
Airtime Transfers and Mobile Communications: Evidence in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters
The Myth of Market Price Information: Mobile Phones and the Application of Economic Knowledge in ICTD
Information in the Mark and Marketplace: A Multivocal Account

Information Economics news

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Incoming Ph.D. Student is First Weber Futures Fellow

Susana Constenla-Villoslada is the first recipient of the Steven Weber Futures Fellowship Fund for Digital Security and Trust.

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Tremendous Vision: Historic Gift Establishes $1M Ph.D. Endowment at I School

Founding Dean Hal Varian commits $500,000 to establish a doctoral endowment at the UC Berkeley School of Information.

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New Book by Data Science Alumnus Looks at the Post-Pandemic Economy

Rebooted: An Uncommon Guide to Radical Success and Fairness in the New World of Life, Death, and Tech, by Arnobio Morelix, examines the opportunities and challenges that are on the horizon for businesses in the post-pandemic economy.

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Meet Our 2020 Award-Winning Junior Faculty

Several young faculty have receive presitigous awards and fellowships in 2020: Aditya Parameswaran, Josh Blumenstock and David Bamman.

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Josh Blumenstock Awarded NSF Career Award for ‘Welfare-Centric’ Machine Learning

The award will support Blumenstock’s work on a new paradigm of algorithmic decision-making  that prioritizes social impact.

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Chris Hoofnagle Explains Shoshana Zuboff’s ‘Surveillance Capitalism’
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Deirdre Mulligan Wary of “Unknown Fund” and Blockchains
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Steven Weber Deconstructs the Future, Bloc by Bloc

In his newly published book, Bloc by Bloc, Professor Steven Weber explores the future of the global enterprise as international tensions reach new heights.

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Steven Weber on the Decaying Tech Ties Between U.S. and China

Concerns regarding Beijing's censorship and human rights record continue to disrupt tech-industry ties between the U.S. and China.

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Hal Varian Named AEA Distinguished Fellow
Hal Varian, professor emeritus and former dean of the School of Information, has been named a 2015 Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association.