Paul David is Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and Associate Fellow of the CABDyN Complexity Centre. He is also Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Universities of Oxford and Stanford. Paul David is especially well-known for his important contribution to the economics of science and technology. He is the Founding Editor of the journal 'Economics of Innovation and New Technology', and has been elected as a Fellow of the International Econometric Society, a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Research interests

The economics of past and current technological change, demographic history, institutional evolution, and topics in the economics of industrial organization with special reference to the micro-level sources of long-term productivity growth. Current topics of continuing research include: technological, institutional and social infrastructures affecting the organization and performance of publicly funded scientific research; impacts of intellectual property rights protection on the production and distribution of scientific and cultural works; resource allocation mechanisms, governance and productivity of free and open source software development projects; standards and technology diffusion's role in the evolution of network industries; theoretical and practical policy issues arising from the presence of path dependent dynamics in economic and social systems.

Contact Details:

pad "at" stanford.edu