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Fisher attended Harvard University, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in 1955 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude) in 1956, followed a Master"s degree in 1957 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from Harvard in 1960.
He has been teaching economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1960. His doctoral thesis was entitled A Priori Information and Time Series Analysis. Fisher married Ellen Paradise Fisher in 1958.
He was Teaching Fellow at Harvard from 1956-1957, Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard from 1957-1959, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago from 1959-1960, Assistant Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1960-1962, Associate Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1962-1965, and Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1965–2004.
Currently he is the Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Microeconomics, Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a director of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1989. Fisher"s fields of specialization within economics are industrial organization, microeconomics, and econometrics.
He has written extensively in the area of antitrust economics. He has served as an expert witness in matters involving antitrust, contract disputes, valuation, damages, and trademark infringement for many years.
He was the chief economic witness for International Business Machines Corporation in its antitrust confrontation with the United States Department of Justice, a case the Government dropped in 1982 after 13 years.
He served in a similar role on behalf of the United States Department of Justice in the case of United States v. Microsoft.
Fisher received the John Bates Clark Medal in 1973. He has been Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1963 and from 1968-1977 he was the editor of Econometrica, the journal of that Society. He was President of the Econometric Society in 1979. He is also a member of the American Economic Association. He has been Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1969.
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