In 2007 Erik Maksin is Nobel laureate in economics recognized with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory".
Education
junior high and high school in the town of Tenafly, New Jersey. He graduated from Tenafly High School in 1968.
In 1968 attended Harvard University where he earned Bachelor of Arts. He continued to earn a Doctor of Philosophy in applied mathematics at the same institution.
Career
In 1976, after earning his doctorate, Maskin become a research fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. In the following year, he joined the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1985, he returned to Harvard at the Louis Berkman Professor of Economics, where in remained until 2000. That year, he moved to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he remains. In addition to his position at the Princeton institute, Maskin is the director of the School in Economics Theory at the The Institute for Advanced Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Also today Erik Maksin is the Adams University Professor 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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«In a world where so many people dislike their jobs, I am lucky to be spending my days working hard at something I love.» (Erik Maksin)