Eric Maskin

Eric Maskin is the Adams University Professor at Harvard. He previously taught at MIT and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Much of his research focuses on mechanism design, which is the engineering part of economics. A mechanism designer will start with a social goal (e.g., reducing carbon emissions by 50% by 2030) and then work out the best mechanism for achieving that goal. For his work in this area, Maskin shared the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.