Michael J. Piore

Michael J. Piore

Born	August 14, 1940 (1940-08-14)
Nationality	United States
Institution	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Field	Labor economics
Alma mater	Harvard University
Influenced	Gilles Saint-Paul

Michael Joseph Piore (born August 14, 1940) is an American economist and professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research centers on labor economics, immigration, and innovation. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1984.^{[citation needed]}

Piore attended Harvard University and received a B.A. in Economics in 1962 and Ph.D. in 1966. He has been a faculty member at MIT since 1966 and has previously served as a consultant to the Department of Labor between 1968 and 1970 and labor consultant to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico between 1970 and 1972.

Publications

• Piore, Michael J.; Lester, Richard (2004). Innovation – The Missing Dimension. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 
• Piore, Michael J.; Paul Osterman, Thomas Kochan, & Richard Locke (2001). Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 
• Piore, Michael J.; Yevgeni Kuznetsov, Clemente Ruiz Duran, & Charles Sabel (2001). Think Globally, Act Locally: Decentralized Incentive Framework for Mexico’s Private Sector Development.. World Bank Informal Research Report. 
• Piore, Michael J.; Mitsuhiro Kagami & John Humphery (1998). Learning, Liberalization, and Economic Adjustment. Tokyo, Japan: Institute of Developing Economies. 
• Piore, Michael J.; Enrique Dussel Peters & Clemente Ruiz Duran (1997). Pensar Globalmente y Actuar Regionalmente: Hacia un Nuevo Paradigma Industrial Para el Siglo XXI, editor. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Fundación Friedrich Ebert: Editoral Jus. 
• Piore, Michael J.; Richard Locke & Thomas Kochan (1995). Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 0262121913. 
• Piore, Michael J. (1995). Beyond Individualism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674068971. 
• Piore, Michael J.; Charles Sabel (1984). The Second Industrial Divide. Basic Books. ISBN 0465075622. 
• Piore, Michael J.; Suzanne Berger (1980). Dualism and Discontinuity in Industrial Society. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 
• Piore, Michael J. (1979). Unemployment and Inflation: Institutionalist and Structuralist Views. Sharpe Press. ISBN 087332143X. 
• Piore, Michael J. (1979). Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521224527. 
• Piore, Michael J.; Peter Doeringer (1971). Internal Labor Markets and Manpower Adjustment. New York: D.C. Heath and Company. 

External links

• MIT Economics faculty homepage
• MacArthur Fellows: March 1984