Stan Liebowitz
Stanley Jason Liebowitz (born 1950 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American economist and university professor .
Career, research and teaching
After completing his Bachelor of Arts at Johns Hopkins University in 1971, Liebowitz graduated in 1977 from the University of California, Los Angeles as a Ph.D. He then went to the University of Western Ontario as an assistant professor , before moving to the University of Rochester in 1982 in the same position . In 1986 he went to North Carolina State University as an associate professor . In 1993 he followed a call from the University of Texas at Dallas , which appointed him full professor. In 2006 he took over the Ashbel Smith chair at the university , after having been director of the Center for the Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation since 2004 .
The focus of Liebowitz's work is on the network effect , path dependencies and lock-ins (in particular standard setting by the market leader), but also questions about intellectual property, copyright and file sharing . In 1999 he had a bestseller with Stephen Margolis with the book Winners, Losers and Microsoft , which took up the then ongoing legal proceedings for Microsoft's leading position in the software market, which analyzed the network effect in the software sector based on the Seattle company and the competition. In addition, the author duo dealt in several publications with the controversy surrounding the QWERTY or Dvorak keyboard layout . In recent years he has been particularly concerned with how the music industry deals with file sharing. His theses were discussed in corresponding court hearings.
Between 2006 and 2008 Liebowitz was President of the Society for Research on Copyright Issues . He has been a Research Fellow of the Independent Institute since 1998 .
Works
The following list shows a selection of books published by Liebowitz, and he has also written numerous magazine articles and working papers.
- Winners, Losers and Microsoft with Stephen Margolis, 1999
- The Economics of Qwerty with Stephen Margolis, 2002
- Re-thinking the Network Economy , 2002
literature
- Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 4th edition, Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 2003, ISBN 1-84064-992-5 , pp. 497-498
Web links
- Stan Liebowitz at the University of Texas at Dallas
- Stan Liebowitz in the IDEAS database
- Literature by and about Stan Liebowitz in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Liebowitz, Stan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Liebowitz, Stanley Jason (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York |