John T. Scott is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Dartmouth College, where he joined the faculty in 1977. His teaching and research are in the areas of industrial organization and the economics of technological change. He received the Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and the A.B. in Economics and English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University, he received the Allyn Young Teaching Prize. He served as the President of the Industrial Organization Society and as an Associate Editor and a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Review of Industrial Organization, and The Journal of Industrial Economics. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Science Foundation, the National Research Council of the National Academies, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. He served as an economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and at the Federal Trade Commission.