Peter Diamond

Peter Diamond
Diamond in 2010
Born
Peter Arthur Diamond

(1940-04-29) April 29, 1940 (age 84)
EducationYale University (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, PhD)
SpouseKate Myrick
Academic career
FieldPolitical economics
Welfare economics
Behavioral economics
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
University of Cambridge
Doctoral
advisor
Robert Solow[1]
Doctoral
students
Martin Hellwig[2]
David K. Levine[3]
Andrei Shleifer[4]
Emmanuel Saez[5]
Botond Kőszegi[6]
AwardsNemmers Prize in Economics (1994)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2010)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Academic background
ThesisEssays on optimal economic growth (1963)
Notes

Peter Arthur Diamond (born April 29, 1940) is an American economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010, along with Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides. He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On June 6, 2011, he withdrew his nomination to serve on the Federal Reserve's board of governors, citing intractable Republican opposition for 14 months.[8][9]

  1. ^ Peter A. Diamond - Autobiography - Nobelprize.org, PDF page 2.
  2. ^ Hellwig, Martin Friedrich (1973). Sequential models in economic dynamics (Ph.D.). MIT. hdl:1721.1/13930.
  3. ^ Levine, David Knudsen (1981). The enforcement of collusion in oligopoly (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  4. ^ Shleifer, Andrei (1986). The business cycle and the stock market (PDF) (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved May 21, 2017.
  5. ^ Saez, Emmanuel (1999). Essays on the economics of income taxation (Ph.D.). MIT. hdl:1721.1/38434.
  6. ^ Kőszegi, Botond (June 8, 2000), Essays in Behavioral Economics (Thesis), MIT (published 2000), hdl:1721.1/74883
  7. ^ "Peter Arthur Diamond" (fee, via Fairfax County Public Library). Biography in Context. Detroit: Gale Biography In Context. 2010. Gale Document Number: GALE|K1650007280. Retrieved June 13, 2011.
  8. ^ Nobel Laureate Diamond Withdraws Nomination to Fed Board, Joshua Zumbrun, Bloomberg News, June 6, 2011.
  9. ^ "Trump science job nominees missing advanced science degrees". Star-Advertiser. Honolulu. Associated Press. December 5, 2017. Retrieved December 5, 2017.

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