Theory

Yannai A. Gonczarowski is an Assistant Professor of Economics and of Computer Science at Harvard University—the first faculty member at Harvard to have been appointed to both of these departments. Interested in both economic theory and theoretical...

Tomasz Strzalecki's research interests are in decision theory and economic theory. He has focused on ambiguity aversion, temporal preferences, and bounded rationality. My research includes both the foundational-axiomatic study of these phenomena as well...

Oliver Hart is currently the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1993. He is the 2016 co-recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.  Hart’s...

Matthew Rabin is the Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Harvard Economics Department and Harvard Business School.
Before that, he spent 25 years at the wonderful University of California, Berkeley Economics Department.  His research...

Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Economics.

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Eric Maskin received the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (with L. Hurwicz and R. Myerson) for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory. He also has made contributions to game theory, contract theory, social choice theory, political economy...

Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University and was until 2004 the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.  He has served as President of Econometric Society, Indian Economic...

Scott Kominers also holds the following appointments:  Affiliate of the Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications and Associate of the Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society.  Scott will teach the year long course ECON 2099...

Prior to joining the Economics Department Faculty, Shengwu Li was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows.

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