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Eric Maskin
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American Nobel laureate in economics
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Eric Maskin is a United States economist and researcher born in New York City in 1950. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University, where his doctoral advisor was Kenneth Arrow. Maskin has held positions at Princeton University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Santa Fe Institute. His academic work focuses on economics, with notable publications including "A Walrasian theory of money and barter," "Incentives, information, and organizational form," and "Markov perfect equilibrium."
He has received the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, the National Medal of Science, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Maskin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Econometric Society. Among his doctoral students are Jean Tirole, Drew Fudenberg, Robert Ward Vishny, and Mathias Dewatripont.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 29
Top works
- A Walrasian theory of money and barter
- Incentives, information, and organizational form
- Markov perfect equilibrium
- Implementation and renegotiation
- Efficient auctions
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 48,786x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 44,298x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,397x
- The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 26,052x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,379x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1950-12-12 ) December 12, 1950 (age 75) , New York City, U.S.
- Education
- Harvard University ( BA , MA , PhD )
- Thesis
- Social choice on restricted domains (1976)
- Doctoral advisor
- Kenneth Arrow
- Discipline
- Game theory
- Institutions
- Harvard University , Institute for Advanced Study , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Princeton University , University of Cambridge
- Doctoral students
- See list Abhijit Banerjee Michael Kremer Robert W. Vishny
- Notable ideas
- Mechanism design
- Awards
- Nobel Memorial Prize (2007)
- Website
- Information at IDEAS / RePEc
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2007
“for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory”
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Encyclopedic overview
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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