David A. Lane

{{short description|American economist (born 1945)}}

{{Other people|David Lane}}

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| birth_name = David Avra Lane

| birth_date = 1945

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| fields = Economics, Statistics

| workplaces = Professor, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

| education = UC Berkley, Ph.D.

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| thesis_title = Fields and Martingales

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| thesis_year = 1975

| doctoral_advisor = Warry Millar

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| known_for = Theory of artifact innovation

| awards = Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1987)

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David Avra Lane (born 1945) is an American economist, who developed the theory of artifact innovation.Magda Fontana. [http://www.cesmep.unito.it/WP/2009/8_WP_Cesmep.pdf The Santa Fe Perspective on Economics: emerging patterns in the science of complexity.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181103014607/http://www.cesmep.unito.it/WP/2009/8_WP_Cesmep.pdf |date=2018-11-03 }} Centro di Studi sulla Storia e i Metodi dell’Economia Politica "Claudio Napoleoni" (CESMEP).{{failed verification|date=October 2011}} At the Santa Fe Institute he has been defining the notion of economic complexity and the Santa Fe approach. He is professor of economics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and research fellow at the European Centre for Living Technology.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ecltech.org/index.php/research/people/21-people/32-davidlane.html |title=ECLT People: David A. Lane |access-date=2012-09-10 |archive-date=2019-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028102333/http://www.ecltech.org/index.php/research/people/21-people/32-davidlane.html |url-status=dead }}

In 1987 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[http://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm View/Search Fellows of the ASA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616161612/https://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm |date=2016-06-16 }}, accessed 2016-11-01.