I have been consulting and testifying on liability, damages and policy issues for antitrust and regulatory matters since the early 1980's. I specialize in information and technology industries, with extensive experience in the Internet, digital content, e-commerce, computer software and hardware, telecommunications, high-volume copiers, and computer services. I have testified by deposition and/or at trial in over forty federal cases, including (among others) at trial for the plaintiffs in ITS v. Kodak, for the defendant in Tricom v. EDS, for the plaintiff in Valassis v. News America, for the defendant in The Service Source v. Office Depot, and for the plaintiffs in the California class action against Microsoft Corp. which ended in a $1.1 billion settlement for California consumers. I have also submitted reports and testimony in numerous regulatory proceedings, and provided antitrust economics advice to many other clients. I founded Resource Economics as an antitrust economics firm in 1989, and co-founded applEcon LLC (an antitrust economics partnership) in 2000. My list of consulting engagements is available.

I was born and raised in downstate New York, oldest of three siblings. In college and while getting a master's of public policy (Dartmouth and Univ. of Michigan, respectively) I studied and was quite active in environmental and energy policy. For example, I was arrested at the big demonstration at the Seabrook nuclear power plant, and I worked in Washington for a year at the National Audubon Society (water policy), and for a summer in the policy office of the Dept. of Energy.

I've been an information and technology junkie since the late 1960s, had my first email romance in 1976, and was deeply engaged with the Internet by the mid-80s, nearly 10 years before the Web began. It took some time to realize I could join this enthusiasm with my research. Most of my early economics research concerned taxes and corporate decisions (investment, financing, choice of organizational form). I had done some telecommunications research in the 1980s, but only in the early 1990s did I drop other topics to pursue exclusively economic and technical issues raised by digital information systems and content.

I used to spend more time in the woods and mountains than at a terminal. Now I find peace and freedom of emotional expression at the piano. I started music studies when I was young, but music became my consuming passion only in the mid-1990s. I play classical (though I occasionally fool around with songbook standards or pop by Tori Amos and a few others). I've been learning about one Beethoven sonata a year, and a variety of other repertoire including Bach preludes and fugues, Schubert impromptus, Brahms intermezzi, etc. I performed (in informal settings!) the first movement of Beethoven's first piano concerto (with a 5-piece chamber group accompanying) and the first movement of Mendelssohn's g minor concerto (with second piano accompanying).

I'm also very committed to nurturing my marriage to Janet Netz. Active parenting of my two boys has been transitioning to active grandparenting of (so far!) our three grandchildren. My Myers-Briggs type is INFP (strong I, N; weak F, P).