Eric S. Maskin

Eric Maskin at a reading at the Ithaka Science Center, Venlo, Netherlands

Eric Stark Maskin (born December 12, 1950 in New York City ) is an American economist . He is the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey . Eric S. Maskin is a Harvard and Cambridge graduate . In 2007, together with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson , he was awarded the Prize for Economics, Nobel Prize for Economics , donated by the Swedish Reichsbank in memory of Alfred Nobel, for work on the design of economic mechanisms .

Life

Eric S. Maskin attended Harvard University , where he received his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1972 , his master's degree in applied mathematics in 1974 and his PhD in the same subject in 1976 . He was awarded an honorary master's degree from Cambridge University in 1977. In 1977 he became a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and became an associate professor in 1980 and a full professor in 1981. In 1983 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1984 he left MIT and became a professor at Harvard, where he was appointed Louis Berkman Professor of Economics in 1997. In 2000 he finally moved to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Maskin is married and has two children.

In 1994 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 2008 to the National Academy of Sciences . In 2007, together with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson, he was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics , donated by the Swedish Reichsbank, for work on the design of economic mechanisms . Hurwicz is considered to be the founder of the theory; Maskin and Myerson had developed it significantly.

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personal data
SURNAME	Maskin, Eric S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Maskin, Eric Stark (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician and economist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 12, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City