R. Preston McAfee, California Institute of Technology
Humanities and Social Sciences
Professor
Pasadena, California
preston@mcafee.cc
Office:
(626) 395-3476
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Preston McAfee is an economist at Google. In 2007, McAfee became Vice President and Research Fellow at Yahoo! Research, where he founded a new social-science research group to work on problems with both scientific importance and business relevance. He also served as Chief Economist of Yahoo! In 2...
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Preston McAfee is an economist at Google. In 2007, McAfee became Vice President and Research Fellow at Yahoo! Research, where he founded a new social-science research group to work on problems with both scientific importance and business relevance. He also served as Chief Economist of Yahoo! In 2012, he moved to Google, where he continues to lead a group of microeconomists and other scholars straddling the borders between business strategy, social science, and computer science.
McAfee earned a BA in Economics from the University of Florida in 1976. He earned MS degrees in both Economics and Mathematics, and a PhD in Economics, from Purdue University. He was a professor of economics at the University of Western Ontario from 1981 to 1990, at the University of Texas from 1990-2003, and at Caltech from 2003-2009. He has also been a visiting professor at the Department of Economics at MIT and the business school at the University of Chicago.
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McAfee earned a BA in Economics from the University of Florida in 1976. He earned MS degrees in both Economics and Mathematics, and a PhD in Economics, from Purdue University. He was a professor of economics at the University of Western Ontario from 1981 to 1990, at the University of Texas from 1990-2003, and at Caltech from 2003-2009. He has also been a visiting professor at the Department of Economics at MIT and the business school at the University of Chicago.
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