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Carl J. Shapiro (February 15, 1913 – March 7, 2021) was an American businessman and philanthropist. In 1939 he founded Kay Windsor, Inc. in New Bedford, Massachusetts , and built it into one of the largest women's clothing companies in the country.
Information at IDEAS / RePEc. Carl Shapiro (born March 20, 1955) is an American economist and an academic who serves as the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy 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 ...
Information Rules is a 1999 book by Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian applying traditional economic theories to modern information-based technologies. [1] The book examines commercial strategies appropriate to companies that deal in information, given the high "first copy" and low "subsequent copy" costs of information commodities, such as music CDs or original texts.
He also represented scores of individual Madoff investors. Mr. Konigsberg's firm has received a civil subpoena from the SEC. His Madoff-related clients included Carl and Ruth Shapiro, Boston philanthropists whose foundation lost $145 million, and whose son-in-law, Robert M. Jaffe, under investigation, is a Madoff business partner. [5] [6]
Contents. Ben Shapiro. For the American documentary director, see Ben Shapiro (director). Benjamin Aaron Shapiro (born January 15, 1984) is an American lawyer, columnist, and conservative political commentator. He writes columns for Creators Syndicate, Newsweek, and Ami Magazine, and serves as editor emeritus for The Daily Wire, which he co ...
In labour economics, Shapiro–Stiglitz theory of efficiency wages (or Shapiro–Stiglitz efficiency wage model) [1] is an economic theory of wages and unemployment in labour market equilibrium. It provides a technical description of why wages are unlikely to fall and how involuntary unemployment appears. This theory was first developed by Carl ...
Carl Shapiro and Joseph Stiglitz (1984) [z] created a model where employees tend to avoid work unless firms can monitor worker effort and threaten slacking employees with unemployment. [169] If the economy is at full employment, a fired shirker simply moves to a new job. [170]
Arnold Shapiro, the only child of Carl and Ida Shapiro, was born Dec. 9, 1923, in Cleveland, but moved as a child to Akron, where he grew up in a Jewish neighborhood off Raymond Street.