Avinash Dixit

Avinash Kamalakar Dixit (born 6 August 1944, in Bombay, India) is an Indian-American economist.[3] He was the John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University,[4] Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at Lingnan University (Hong Kong), senior research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and Sanjaya Lall Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford.

Avinash Dixit
Born (1944-08-06) 6 August 1944
Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
NationalityUnited States
InstitutionPrinceton University
Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
Nuffield College, Oxford
University of Warwick
FieldEconomics
Alma materUniversity of Mumbai (B.Sc.)
University of Cambridge (B.A.)
MIT (Ph.D.)
Doctoral
advisor		Robert Solow[1]
Doctoral
students		Vijay Kelkar
Robert Helsley
Dani Rodrik[2]
AwardsPadma Vibhushan
John von Neumann Award (2001)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Education

Dixit received a B.Sc. from Bombay University in 1963 in Mathematics and Physics, a B.A. from Cambridge University in 1965 in Mathematics (Corpus Christi College, First Class), and a Ph.D. in 1968 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Economics.

Career

Dixit has been the John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University since July 1989. He is also Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at Lingnan University (Hong Kong), senior research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and senior visiting research fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford. He previously taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the University of California, Berkeley, at Balliol College, Oxford and at the University of Warwick. In 1994 Dixit received the first-ever CES Fellow Award from the Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich. In January 2016, India announced it will confer the Padma Vibhushan - the second highest of India's civilian honors to Dr. Dixit.

Dixit has also held visiting scholar positions at the International Monetary Fund and the Russell Sage Foundation. He was President of the Econometric Society in 2001, and was Vice-President (2002) and President (2008) of the American Economic Association. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.

With Robert Pindyck he is author of "Investment Under Uncertainty" (Princeton University Press, 1994; ISBN 0691034109), the first textbook exclusively about the real options approach to investments, and described as "a born-classic" in view of its importance to the theory.

Selected publications
gollark: If people are randomly assigned (after initial mental development and such) to an environment where they're much more likely to do bad things, and one where they aren't, then it seems unreasonable to call people who are otherwise the same worse from being in the likely-to-do-bad-things environment.I suppose you could argue that how "good" you are is more about the change in probability between environments/the probability of a given real world environment being one which causes you to do bad things. But we can't check those with current technology.
gollark: I think you can think about it from a "veil of ignorance" angle too.
gollark: As far as I know, most moral standards are in favor of judging people by moral choices. Your environment is not entirely a choice.
gollark: If you put a pre-most-bad-things Hitler in Philadelphia, and he did not go around doing *any* genocides or particularly bad things, how would he have been bad?
gollark: It seems problematic to go around actually blaming said soldiers when, had they magically been in a different environment somehow, they could have been fine.

References
  1. Development planning in a dual economy.
  2. "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.
  3. Jeremy Clift (December 2010). "Fun & Games". Finance & Development. People in Economics. 47 (4).
  4. "Avinash K. Dixit, Home Page". Department of Economics, Princeton University. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Thomas J. Sargent		 President of the American Economic Association
2008– 2009		 Succeeded by
Angus Deaton
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