Glen Weyl is an economist known for work on mechanism design, quadratic voting and quadratic funding, and the ideas in the book Radical Markets. He founded the RadicalxChange movement.
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- Glen Weyl is an economist and researcher whose work focuses on market and mechanism design aimed at improving social institutions. With co-authors he proposed quadratic voting and quadratic funding and set out broader proposals in the book Radical Markets.
- He founded RadicalxChange, a movement promoting these ideas, and his proposals on plural funding influenced experiments in decentralised public goods funding. His research links economic theory to concrete mechanisms for collective decision making.