Avinash Dixit
Avinash Dixit | |
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Born | (1944-08-06) 6 August 1944 (age 79) Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India |
Nationality | American |
Academic career | |
Institution | Princeton University Lingnan University (Hong Kong) Nuffield College, Oxford University of Warwick |
Field | Economics |
Alma mater | St. Xavier's College, Mumbai (B.Sc.) University of Mumbai University of Cambridge (B.A.) MIT (Ph.D.) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Solow[1] |
Doctoral students | Vijay Kelkar Robert Helsley Dani Rodrik[2] |
Awards | Padma Vibhushan John von Neumann Award (2001) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Avinash Kamalakar Dixit (born 6 August 1944) is an Indian-American economist.[3] He is the John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University,[4] and has been Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at Lingnan University (Hong Kong), senior research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and Sanjaya Lall Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford.
Education
Dixit received a B.Sc. from University of Mumbai (St. Xavier's College) in 1963 in Mathematics and Physics, a B.A. from Cambridge University in 1965 in Mathematics (Corpus Christi College, First Class), and a Ph.D. in 1968 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Economics.[5][6]
Career
Dixit is the John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University since July 1989, and Emeritus since 2010. He was also Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at Lingnan University (Hong Kong), senior research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and Sanjaya Lall senior visiting research fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford. He previously taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the University of California, Berkeley, at Balliol College, Oxford and at the University of Warwick. In 1994 Dixit received the first-ever CES Fellow Award from the Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich in Germany. In January 2016, India conferred the Padma Vibhushan - the second highest of India's civilian honors to Dr. Dixit.
Dixit has also held visiting scholar positions at the International Monetary Fund and the Russell Sage Foundation. He was President of the Econometric Society in 2001, and was Vice-President (2002) and President (2008) of the American Economic Association. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992, the National Academy of Sciences in 2005, and the American Philosophical Society in 2010.[7] He has also been on the Social Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2011.[8]
With Robert Pindyck he is author of "Investment Under Uncertainty" (Princeton University Press, 1994; ISBN 0691034109), the first textbook exclusively about the real options approach to investments, and described as "a born-classic"[9] in view of its importance to the theory.
Selected publications
- 1976. The Theory of Equilibrium Growth. Oxford University Press.
- 1977. "Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity", The American Economic Review, vol. 67, no. 3, p. 297–308, with Joseph E. Stiglitz.
- 1980. Theory of International Trade, with Victor Norman. Cambridge University Press
- [1976] 1990. Optimization in Economic Theory, 2nd ed., Oxford. Description and contents preview.
- 1991. Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life, with Barry Nalebuff, New York: W.W. Norton.
- 1993. The Art of Smooth Pasting, Vol. 55 of series Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics, eds. Jacques Lesourne and Hugo Sonnenschein. Reading, UK: Harwood Academic Publishers.
- 1996a.Investment Under Uncertainty, co-authored by Robert Pindyck. Princeton University Press.
- 1996b. The Making of Economic Policy: A Transaction Cost Politics Perspective (Munich Lectures in Economics), M.I.T. Press. Description.
- 2004. Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Governance], Gorman Lectures in Economics, University College London, Princeton University Press. Description and ch. 1, Economics With and Without the Law.
- 2008a. The Art of Strategy: A Game-Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life with Barry Nalebuff, New York: W. W. Norton.
- 2008b. "economic governance," in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition. Abstract.
- 2009. Games of Strategy, with Susan Skeath and David McAdams, New York: W. W. Norton, 1999, 5th edition 2020.
- 2014. Microeconomics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press.
References
- ^ Development planning in a dual economy.
- ^ "Dani Rodrik on Premature Deindustrialization and Why the World is Second Best, at Best (Ep. 4 - Live at Mason) (A Conversation with Dani Rodrik)". Medium.com. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ^ Jeremy Clift (December 2010). "Fun & Games". Finance & Development. People in Economics. 47 (4).
- ^ "Avinash K. Dixit, Home Page". Department of Economics, Princeton University. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
- ^ "Avinash Kamalakar Dixit | Dean of the Faculty". dof.princeton.edu. Archived from the original on 23 October 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
- ^ "Avinash Dixit | John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics Emeritus, Princeton University". blogs.worldbank.org. 3 February 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- ^ "Infosys Prize - Jury 2020". www.infosys-science-foundation.com. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ Real Options Selected Bibliography: the Dixit & Pindyck Book, accessed 14 June 2023 [better source needed]
External links
- Short biography
- Curriculum vitae
- Recent writings
- Dixit, Avinash; Nalebuff, Barry (2008). "Game Theory". In David R. Henderson (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2nd ed.). Indianapolis: Library of Economics and Liberty. ISBN 978-0865976658. OCLC 237794267.
- Dixit, Avinash; Nalebuff, Barry (2008). "Prisoner's Dilemma". In David R. Henderson (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2nd ed.). Indianapolis: Library of Economics and Liberty. ISBN 978-0865976658. OCLC 237794267.
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