Carl Shapiro
Carl Shapiro (born March 20, 1955 in Austin , Texas ) is an American economist and professor of corporate strategy at the University of California, Berkeley . His research area is microeconomics .
Life
Shapiro received his Ph.D. in 1981. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has worked for the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1985 . In 1985 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ). He received his first professorship in 1987 at Princeton University . In 1990 Shapiro moved to the University of California at Berkeley , where he has held a professorship for business administration and economics since 1990. A trans-American chair for corporate strategy was added in 1994. The co-author of Hal Varian publishes a. a. on patent, antitrust and information economics .
Shapiro's professorship is currently suspended after he was appointed to the Council of Economic Advisers , the economic advisory body of the US President , in April 2011 . There he succeeded Cecilia Rouse . He previously served in government services from 1995 to 1996 and from 2009 to 2011 as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Competition Law of the US Department of Justice .
Fonts (selection)
- with Hal Varian and Joseph Farrell : The Economics of Information Technology . Cambridge University Press, 2004
- Patent reform. Aligning Reward and Contribution . Innovation Policy and the Economy, 2007
- Improving Critical Loss, with Joseph Farrell . Antitrust Source, 2008
literature
- Carl Shapiro, Hal Varian : Information Rules . Harvard Business Review Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-87584-863-1 .
- Who's Who in America. 66th Edition, Volume 2: M – Z. Marquis Who's Who, Berkeley Heights 2011, ISBN 978-0-8379-7032-5 (Volume 2), ISBN 978-0-8379-7035-6 (Complete Works ), ISSN 0083-9396 , p. 4053
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Shapiro in the catalog of the German National Library
- university appearance
- Entry at IDEAS
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Shapiro, Carl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1955 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Austin , Texas |