Carl Shapiro (born 20 March 1955) is an American economist and academic who serves as the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy at the
University of California, Berkeley
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's
Haas School of Business
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. He is the co-author, along with
Hal Varian
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of ''
Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy'', published by the
Harvard Business School Press
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. On February 23, 2011, ''
The Wall Street Journal
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'' reported that President
Barack Obama
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intended to nominate Shapiro to his
Council of Economic Advisers.
Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for
Economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...
in the Antitrust Division of the
U.S. Department of Justice
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(1995–1996). He is a Senior Consultant with
Charles River Associates
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Practice areas
Their practices include: aerospace & defense, antitrust & competition economics, auctions & competitive bidding, climat ...
and has consulted extensively for a wide range of private clients as well as for the U.S. Department of Justice and the
Federal Trade Commission.
Shapiro was again the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics of the
Antitrust division of the Justice Department from 2009 to 2011.
Shapiro holds a
BS in
mathematics and a
BS in
economics
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from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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, an
MA in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley and a
PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He also coined the term
essential patent
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to cover a patent that was required to practice a given
industry standard
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.
Publications
* ''
Information Rules
Information Rules is a 1999 book by Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian applying traditional economic theories to modern information-based technologies. The book examines commercial strategies appropriate to companies that deal in information, given th ...
'' (Harvard Business Press 1999; co-authored with Hal R. Varian)
*
References
External links
Berkeley Haas ProfileScientific publications*
*
1955 births
Living people
21st-century American economists
Haas School of Business faculty
Princeton University faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
United States Council of Economic Advisers
United States Department of Justice officials
Sloan Research Fellows
Fellows of the Econometric Society
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