Joshua Gans
Economist and management professor
Joshua Gans is an economist who holds the Jeffrey Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. He has written Prediction Machines and Power And Prediction.
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Australian Born 1968 in Sydney, Australia
About Joshua Gans
Joshua Gans is a professor of strategic management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, where he teaches entrepreneurial strategy. He is also chief economist of the university's Creative Destruction Lab. Before moving to Toronto he was a professor at Melbourne Business School, and earlier he worked at the University of New South Wales. Gans studied economics at the University of Queensland and earned his PhD at Stanford University. He has specialized in how technology shapes competition and innovation, and also in growth, the economics of publishing, industry structure and regulation. In 2007 he received the Economic Society of Australia's Young Economist Award. His books include Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence, as well as Parentonomics, The Disruption Dilemma and The Pandemic Information Gap. He has also written for the Financial Times and the Sloan Management Review.