Peter Diamond

Economist, Academic

1940 –

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Who is Peter Diamond?

Peter Arthur Diamond is an American economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010, along with Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides. He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On June 6, 2011 he withdrew his nomination to serve on the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, citing intractable Republican opposition for 14 months.

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Born
Apr 29, 1940
New York City
Also known as
  • Peter A. Diamond
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Yale University
  • PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Economics
    ( - 1963)
Employment
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lived in
  • New York City
  • Massachusetts

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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