Eric Maskin

Economist, Academic

1950 –

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Who is Eric Maskin?

Eric Stark Maskin is a North American economist and 2007 Nobel laureate recognized with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory". He is the Adams University Professor 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.

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Born
Dec 12, 1950
New York City
Also known as
  • Eric S. Maskin
Ethnicity
  • Jewish people
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University
    Mathematics
    ( - 1972)
  • Master's Degree, Harvard University
    Applied mathematics
    ( - 1974)
  • PhD, Harvard University
    Applied mathematics
    ( - 1976)
  • Tenafly High School
Employment
  • Harvard University
    (1985 - 2000)
  • Institute for Advanced Study
    (2000 - )
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1977 - 1984)
  • Princeton University
Lived in
  • Belmont

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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