Eric Maskin
Eric Maskin | |
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 Maskin in 2009 | |
| Born | December 12, 1950 New York City, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Thesis | Social choice on restricted domains (1976) |
| Kenneth Arrow | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Game theory |
| Institutions | Harvard University Institute for Advanced Study Massachusetts Institute of Technology Princeton University University of Cambridge |
Doctoral students | |
Notable ideas | Mechanism design |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize (2007) |
| Website | |
Eric Stark Maskin (born December 12, 1950) is an American economist and mathematician. He was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory". He is the Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard University.
Until 2011, he was the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, and a visiting lecturer with the rank of professor at Princeton University.