Eric Maskin
Eric Stark Maskin 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.
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- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityHarvard CollegeElisabeth Morrow SchoolTenafly High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel🏆 National Medal of Science🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Harvard Centennial Medal🏆 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Kenneth Arrow
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Jean Tirole📖 Abhijit Banerjee📖 Philippe Aghion
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1950
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