James Bessen

Author and Economist at Boston University School of Law

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James Bessen Biography

James Bessen is an economist who has been a Lecturer at Boston University School of Law since 2004, and was previously a software developer and CEO of a software company. Bessen was also a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Bessen researches the economics of innovation, including patents and economic history. He has written about software patents with Eric Maskin, arguing that they might inhibit innovation rather than stimulate progress. With Michael J. Meurer, he wrote Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk as well as papers on patent trolls. His book Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth argues that major new technologies require new skills and knowledge that are slow and difficult to develop, affecting jobs and wages.

Bessen developed the first WYSIWYG desktop publishing program at a community newspaper in Philadelphia in 1983. He established and ran a company, Bestinfo, to sell that program commercially. In 1993, Bestinfo was sold to Intergraph.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 04/09/2024.

James Bessen Videos

  • The Future of Software Patents - YouTube
  • James Bessen on Economic Inequality and Technology: How ...

James Bessen Books

  • Learning by Doing: The Real Connection between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth
    Learning by Doing: The Real Connection between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth

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