Economics Nobel Laureate Eric Maskin Speaks at SMU

Professor Eric Maskin, the eminent economic theorist and the winner of the 2007 Economics Nobel Prize, delivered the keynote address at a conference organized by the Economics Department in April 2016. His lecture was titled “Elections and Strategic Voting: Condorcet and Borda.” Maskin is the Adams University Professor at Harvard University. He has made fundamental contributions to implementation and mechanism design theory.  The conference was in honor of retiring Professor Shlomo Weber of SMU.