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| Name | Avinash Dixit |
| Birth | 1944 (age 63–64) |
| Nationality | India |
| Field | Economics |
Avinash Kamalakar Dixit (born 1944 in Bombay) is an Indian American economist.
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Education
Dixit earned a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics at Bombay University. He subsequently completed a B.A. in Mathematics at Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
Other work
He was President of the Econometric Society in 2001, and was a Vice-President in 2002 and is the President in 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.
Books
- Dixit, Avinash K. & Nalebuff, Barry (1991). Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics and Everyday Life. W W Norton. ISBN 0-393-02923-9.
- Lawlessness and economics
- Games of Strategy
- Investment under Uncertainty by Robert Pindyck & Avinash Dixit
Categories: 1944 births | Living people | Academics of the University of Oxford | Academics of the University of Warwick | American economists | Fellows of the Econometric Society | Indian American writers | Indian economists | Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni | Members of the National Academy of Sciences | People from Mumbai | Princeton University faculty | Trade economists | Economist stubs
