Eric Maskin - An Introduction to Mechanism Design - Warwick Economics Summit 2014

Professor Eric Maskin giving the keynote address on ’How to Make the Right Decisions without knowing People’s Preferences: An Introduction to Mechanism Design’ at the Warwick Economics Summit 2014. Eric Maskin is an American Economist and Nobel laureate. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2007, alongside Leonard Hurwicz and Roger B. Myerson “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory“. He has also made contributions to game theory, contract theory, social choice theory,