# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-shapiro
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:05:44.374Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-shapiro"
name: "Carl Shapiro"
slug: "carl-shapiro"
description: "Carl Shapiro is an American economist and professor 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. He served on former US president Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers from 2011 to 2012."
tagline: "American economist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CarlShapiro.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955-03-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.682506666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Carl Shapiro"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "كارل شابيرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Shapiro"
    title: "Carl Shapiro"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Shapiro"
    title: "Carl Shapiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Shapiro"
    title: "Carl Shapiro"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1040595"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump