# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marshall-van-alstyne
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:33:07.414Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marshall-van-alstyne"
name: "Marshall Van Alstyne"
slug: "marshall-van-alstyne"
description: "Marshall W. Van Alstyne is an American academic and researcher whose work focuses on the economics of information, digital platforms, and market design. He is a professor of information systems at Boston University and has held affiliated research appointments at Harvard Law School, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Stanford University. His work focuses on the economics of information. This includes a sustained interest in information markets and in how information and technology affect productivity with an emphasis on “platforms” as an extension of the work on two-sided markets."
tagline: "American academic (born 1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MVAOnPoint.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1962-03-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.607272
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump