Avinash Dixit
Avinash Dixit | |
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| 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) |
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Avinash Kamalakar Dixit (born 6 August 1944) is an
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
Career
Dixit is the John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at
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
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
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.
- better source needed]
External links
- Short biography
- Curriculum vitae
- Recent writings
- Dixit, Avinash; OCLC 237794267.
- Dixit, Avinash; OCLC 237794267.
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