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Erik Brynjolfsson

Erik Brynjolfsson

Co-founder and Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

Erik Brynjolfsson is Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, Professor at MIT Sloan School, and Research Associate at NBER. His research examines the effects of information technologies on business strategy, productivity and performance, digital commerce, and intangible assets. At MIT, he teaches courses on the Economics of Information and the Analytics Lab. Author or co-author of several books including NYTimes best-seller The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies(2014), and the forthcoming Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future (2017).