#  De La Salle University Awards Honorary Doctorate to Eric Maskin 

 





January 11, 2017

 

 

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 Nobel Laureate in Economics Professor Eric Maskin was conferred an honorary doctorate in Economic Sciences by DLSU.

 Following the conferment, Dr. Maskin delivered a lecture at the Teresa Yuchengco Auditorium, entitled “Why global markets have failed to reduce inequality.” The conferment and lecture were organized under the partnership of DLSU with the International Peace Foundation (IPF).

 [Eric Maskin](http://scholar.harvard.edu/maskin) is Adams University Professor at Harvard. He 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, and other areas of economics. He received his A.B. and Ph.D from Harvard and was a postdoctoral fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge University. He was a faculty member at MIT from 1977-1984, Harvard from 1985-2000, and the Institute for Advanced Study from 2000-2011. He rejoined the Harvard faculty in 2012.



 

 

 



 

 

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