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Eric Maskin

1950 - Today

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Eric Stark Maskin (born December 12, 1950) is an American economist and mathematician. He was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory". He is the Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard University. Until 2011, he was the Albert O. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eric Maskin has received more than 293,288 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Eric Maskin is the 234th most popular economist (down from 207th in 2019), the 4,257th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,840th in 2019) and the 78th most popular American Economist.

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Eric Maskin ranks 234 out of 315. Before him are Colin Clark, Johann Karl Rodbertus, Étienne Laspeyres, Mahbub ul Haq, Harold Innis, and Alexander Gerschenkron. After him are Hernando de Soto Polar, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Eugen Varga, Jules Dupuit, Greg Mankiw, and John R. Commons.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Eric Maskin ranks 196. Before him are Kathy Baker, Adrian Năstase, Kurt Koch, Li Yuanchao, David Cassidy, and Seiichi Sakiya. After him are Jadranka Stojaković, Luigi Delneri, Jim Beaver, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Erri De Luca, and Kazuhisa Kono.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eric Maskin ranks 4,257 out of 18,182. Before him are Tiny Tim (1932), Carlos Hathcock (1942), Anthony Delon (1964), Michael S. Hart (1947), Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), and Helen Stephens (1918). After him are Willa Cather (1873), Tommy Thayer (1960), Donn F. Eisele (1930), William J. Burns (1956), Pete Maravich (1947), and John Roberts (1955).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Eric Maskin ranks 78. Before him are William Baumol (1922), Thomas Sowell (1930), David D. Friedman (1945), Benjamin Tucker (1854), Henry Hazlitt (1894), and George Shultz (1920). After him are Greg Mankiw (1958), John R. Commons (1862), Edward Chamberlin (1899), Leo Huberman (1903), Ellen Swallow Richards (1842), and Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874).

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