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Erik Brynjolfsson
American academic / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Erik Brynjolfsson (born 1962) is an American academic, author and inventor. He is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and a Senior Fellow[1] at Stanford University where he directs the Digital Economy Lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, with appointments at SIEPR,[2] the Stanford Department of Economics and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research[3] and a best-selling author of several books.[4] From 1990 to 2020, he was a professor at MIT.
Erik Brynjolfsson | |
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![]() Brynjolfsson in 2013 | |
Born | 1962 (age 61–62) |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Known for | Productivity paradox The Long Tail Bundling of Information Goods Cyberbalkanization |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Information Systems Economics Technological Change |
Institutions | Stanford University |
Notable students | Shuman Ghosemajumder Lorin Hitt Yu (Jeffrey) Hu Michael D. Smith Marshall Van Alstyne Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang |
Brynjolfsson is known for his contributions to the world of IT productivity research and work on the economics of information, the economics of AI, and the digital economy more generally.[5] According to Martin Wolf, "No economist has done more to promote the revolutionary implications of information technology than MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson."[6]