Eric Maskin

Eric Maskin

American Nobel laureate in economics

75 years oldSagittariusUnited States

Biography

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.

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Career highlights

Employers / organisations

  • Princeton University
  • Harvard University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Santa Fe Institute
  • Institute for Advanced Study
  • University of Cambridge

Awards & honours (6)

  • Guggenheim Fellowship
  • Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
  • Harvard Centennial Medal
  • Fellow of the Econometric Society
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • National Medal of Science

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Eric Maskin's zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
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