Eric Maskin

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

Life

Eric S. Maskin attended Harvard University, where he in 1972 his Bachelor of Mathematics, 1974, his Master of Applied Mathematics and in the same subject in 1976 received his Ph. D.. From the University of Cambridge in 1977 he was awarded an honorary master. In 1977 he became a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was ibid. 1980 Extraordinary and 1981 as full professor of economics. In 1984 he left the MIT and was a professor at Harvard, where he was named Louis Berkman Professor of Economics in 1997. In 2000 he moved finally to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Awards

He was 2007 together with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson for work in the design of economic mechanisms instituted by the Bank of Sweden in memory of Alfred Nobel Prize in Economics, Nobel Prize for Economics awarded. Hurwicz regarded as the founder of the theory; Maskin and Myerson had it much more developed.

Personal

Maskin is married and has two children.