April 13, 2016
Eric S. Maskin, Adams University Professor, was awarded an Honorary Professorship from Zhejiang University in a ceremony in Hangzhou, China on April 10, 2016.
Professor Maskin gave a lecture “Why Has Inequality Increased in China?” on that occasion.
Eric 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.