Shane Greenstein is an American economist. He is the Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration at the
Harvard Business School
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. He is the author of two books and the co-editor of three. He has published research about Wikipedia.
Education
Greenstein received his BA from
University of California at Berkeley
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in 1983, and his PhD from
Stanford University
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in 1989, both in economics. He held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford in 1989.
Career
Greenstein is a leading researcher in the business economics of
computing
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,
communications
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and
Internet
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infrastructure
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. His research and writing focus on a variety of topics in this area, including the adoption of
client-server systems, the growth of commercial Internet access networks, the industrial economics of platforms, and changes in communications policy. Over a twenty-five-year career he has written and edited eight books, and published over one hundred refereed journal articles and book chapters. He has written over on hundred other articles for policy and business audiences. He is regularly quoted in national and local media. He has been a regular columnist and essayist for
IEEE
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Micro since 1995.
Greenstein was the Program Chair for the Telecommunication Policy Research Conference in 2000 and co-chair with Victor Stango for the conference on Standards and Public Policy, held at the Chicago
Federal Reserve Board
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in 2005. He is a participant in many national research organizations, including
National Bureau of Economic Research
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and Conference on Research, Income and Wealth. As a
fellow
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In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements.
Within the context of higher education ...
of Berkman Center for Internet & Society at
Harvard University
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he researches slant and bias in
Wikipedia
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.
Greenstein sits on numerous editorial boards, including ''
Journal of Regulatory Economics
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'', ''
Economics Bulletin
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'', and ''
Information and Economics Policy
Information is an abstract concept that refers to that which has the power to inform. At the most fundamental level information pertains to the interpretation of that which may be sensed. Any natural process that is not completely random, ...
'', and holds or has held several oversight responsibilities, including advisory committee for the U.S. Census, and National Institute for Science and Technology. He also reviews for a wide assortment of major journals in economics and information science, and for a wide assortment of organizations, including the
National Science Foundation
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, and
National Academy of Sciences
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. At Northwestern University he is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Industrial Organization and the Institute for Policy Research. He was chair of the Management and Strategy Department from 2002 to 2005.
Greenstein has published research about Wikipedia. In particular, he has shown that Wikipedia editors who edit about politics become increasingly less partisan.
Personal life
Greenstein is married with four children. His wife, Ranna Rozenfeld, is a pediatric critical care medicine physician at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, RI, after many years at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago, IL.
Books
* Shane Greenstein, ''How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)'', Princeton University Press. 2015.
* Shane Greenstein and Victor Stango, editors, ''Standards and Public Policy'', Cambridge Press. 2007
* Shane Greenstein, editor, ''Computing'', Edward-Elgar Press. 2006
* Shane Greenstein, ''Diamonds are Forever, Computers are not''. Imperial College Press. 2004
* Lorrie Cranor and Shane Greenstein, editors, MIT Press. 2002
''Communications Policy and Information Technology: Promises, Problems, Prospects''* Ben Compaine and Shane Greenstein, editors, MIT Press. 2001
''Communications Policy in Transition: The Internet and Beyond''
References
External links
* Book: How the Internet Became Commercia
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Living people
American economists
Northwestern University faculty
Berkman Fellows
Harvard Business School faculty
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Stanford University alumni