Carl Shapiro

ThinkersBorn 1955Economist

Works

  • Network Externalities, Competition, and Compatibility, American Economic Review, 1985

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Known for

A Berkeley industrial organization economist whose 1985 paper with Michael L. Katz formalized network externalities, the gain each user gets as more people use a product, and analyzed when firms choose compatible or incompatible products. He later wrote Information Rules (1998) with Hal Varian.

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