Erik Brynjolfsson

Erik Brynjolfsson
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

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.

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]