Glen Weyl looks back to the beginnings of democracy in early Greece and talks about how we still have not realized the dream of a real democracy. He talks about the need for a true democracy that is rule by popular will. Weyl discusses his concept for quadratic voting which he believes will make the US more democratic.
Author & Principal Researcher at Microsoft
E. (Eric) Glen Weyl is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York City whose work aims to use technology and economics to find new ways to organize societies to reduce inequality, increase productivity and ease political tensions. Glen Weyl is also a researcher at Princeton University and co-author of the book "Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society".
