Richard Schmalensee

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Richard Lee Schmalensee (born February 16, 1944 in Belleville , Illinois ) is an American economist and professor of economics and management at the MIT Sloan School of Management . His work deals with antitrust policy and market regulation .

Life

Schmalensee did his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970 and moved to the University of California in the same year . In 1977 he returned to MIT from San Diego , where he holds various positions. The economist's research on free market competition played a role in the antitrust proceedings against Microsoft . The economist supported the position of the software company against the United States Department of Justice in these proceedings .

In 1995 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works

  • The Control of Natural Monopolies. DC Heath (Lexington Books), Lexington 1979
  • Applied Microeconomics: Problems in Estimation, Forecasting and Decision-Making. Holden-Day, San Francisco 1973
  • with David S. Evans: Catalyst Code: The Strategies Behind the World's Most Dynamic Companies. Harvard Business School Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4221-0199-5

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