Carl Shapiro

For the philanthropist, see Carl J. Shapiro. For the poet, see Karl Shapiro.

Carl Shapiro
Shapiro c. 2009–2011
Born	(1955-03-20) March 20, 1955 Austin, Texas, U.S.
Occupations	Economist academic
Years active	1995–present
Academic career
Field	Microeconomics
Institution	Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley
School or tradition	Neoclassical economics
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, BS, PhD) University of California, Berkeley (MA)
Doctoral advisor	Richard L. Schmalensee
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Carl Shapiro (born March 20, 1955) is an American economist and an academic who serves as the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. He is the co-author, along with Hal Varian of Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy, published by the Harvard Business School Press. On February 23, 2011, The Wall Street Journal reported that President Barack Obama intended to nominate Shapiro to his Council of Economic Advisers.

Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (1995–1996). He is a Senior Consultant with Charles River Associates 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 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 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 to cover a patent that was required to practice a given industry standard.

Publications

• Information Rules (Harvard Business Press 1999; co-authored with Hal R. Varian)
• Hal R. Varian; Joseph Farrell; Carl Shapiro (23 December 2004). The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-60521-2.

External links

• Berkeley Haas Profile
• FT Interview with Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian
• Scientific publications
• Carl Shapiro publications indexed by Google Scholar
• "Carl Shapiro". JSTOR.