Keynote Speakers

Joel Waldfogel, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

Joel Waldfogel is Professor, Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

His main research interests are industrial organization and law and economics, and he has conducted empirical studies of price advertising, media markets, the operation of differentiated product markets, and issues related to digital products, including piracy, pricing, and revenue sharing. He has published more than 50 articles in scholarly outlets, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the RAND Journal of Economics. He also has published several books, including Digital Renaissance (Princeton University Press, 2018), The Tyranny of the Market: Why You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Harvard University Press, 2007) and Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays (Princeton University Press, 2009). During 2021-2022 he was the Kamenstein Scholar at the US Copyright Office. He has also written for Slate.

Waldfogel received a B.A. in Economics from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. He grew up in South Minneapolis, graduating from Washburn High School.