Tag: Eric Maskin

  • Nation & World

    Did winning the Nobel change your life?

    Harvard laureates say it gave bully pulpit, brought invitations to speak (sometimes on subjects they know nothing about), meet kings (and play poker with Steve Martin).

    William G. Kaelin Jr. receiving his Nobel Prize in 2019, with
  • Work & Economy

    Will Omicron damage the economy?

    Harvard economist and Nobel laureate Eric Maskin sees possible challenges and reasons for optimism.

    People walking in NYC.
  • Campus & Community

    ‘I’ve never done work that I was not interested in. That is a very good reason to go on.’

    Indian economist and philosopher, Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel laureate in economics, talks about his life as the son of distinguished Hindu academics and how the inequities all around him in colonial India of the 1930s would shape his intellectual destiny.

    Amartya Sen.
  • Campus & Community

    Nobel winner, times two

    Just days after Oliver Hart, the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, received the Nobel Prize in economics, the Harvard Gazette sat down with him and Adams University Professor Eric Maskin, who won the prize in 2007, to look back on their distinguished careers. 

  • Campus & Community

    Roth shares economics Nobel

    Alvin E. Roth, an economist whose research as a member of Harvard Business School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences improved the design and functioning of markets, has won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He shares the prize with Lloyd S. Shapley, A.B. ’44, of the University…

  • Nation & World

    A welcome home

    After more than a decade away, Professor Eric Maskin returned to the Economics Department this semester to a warm reception — and with a Nobel Prize in tow.

  • Campus & Community

    Benefiting society, scholarship

    For more than two decades, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) has awarded its Centennial Medal to a select group of graduates who have made significant contributions to society and scholarship: David Bevington ’52, Ph.D. ’59, English; Stephen Fischer-Galati ’46, Ph.D. ’49, history; Eric Maskin ’72, Ph.D. ’76, applied mathematics; Martha Nussbaum, Ph.D.…