Dr. John Roberts is a famous Economics professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Stanford. I personally did not know him before this.
Dr. Roberts received his Ph.D degree from University of Minnesota in 1972. And then, he started to teach at Kellogg Graduate School of Management. What amazed me is that he was so fruitful and brilliant that he received his Professor title only six years after he got his Ph.D when he was 32 years old. And since 1980, he has been a faculty member at GSB at Stanford.
His current research interest, according to his Stanford webpage, invovle international business, the organization of the firm, and the connection between strategy and organization, which is very similar to what we are or will learn here in ECON490 class.
Since you added late, you missed the story that I'm a Northwestern PhD and was a grad student in the Economics department (in the college of Arts and Sciences) while Roberts, and a year or two later Paul Milgrom, were faculty in the Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences department (in the Business school). That's when their co-authorship started. They were applying information-economics ideas to industrial organization issues, something I started to do myself five or six years later.
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