Carl Shapiro (born 20 March 1955) is an American economist and academic who serves as the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy at the

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. He is the co-author, along with

Hal Varian Hal Ronald Varian (born March 18, 1947 in Wooster, Ohio) is Chief Economist at Google and holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information. Varian is an eco ...

of '' Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy'', published by the

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. On February 23, 2011, ''

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'' reported that President

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intended to nominate Shapiro to his Council of Economic Advisers. Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for

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in the Antitrust Division of the

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(1995–1996). He is a Senior Consultant with

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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

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from the

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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

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to cover a patent that was required to practice a given

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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 Profile

Scientific 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 {{US-business-academic-bio-stub