Avinash Dixit
Born	(1944-08-06)6 August 1944 (age 81) Bombay,Bombay Province,British India
Academic background
Alma mater	St. Xavier's College, Mumbai(B.Sc.) University of Mumbai University of Cambridge(B.A.) MIT(Ph.D.)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Solow[1]
Academic work
Discipline	Economics
Institutions	Princeton University Lingnan University (Hong Kong) Nuffield College, Oxford University of Warwick
Doctoral students	Vijay Kelkar Robert Helsley Dani Rodrik[2]
Awards	Padma Vibhushan John von Neumann Award (2001)
Website	Information atIDEAS / RePEc

Avinash Kamalakar Dixit (born 6 August 1944) is anIndian-American economist.^[3] He is the John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of EconomicsEmeritus atPrinceton University,^[4] and has been distinguished adjunct professor of economics atLingnan University (Hong Kong), senior research fellow atNuffield College, Oxford andSanjaya Lall Senior Visiting Research Fellow atGreen Templeton College, Oxford.

Dixit received aB.Sc. fromUniversity of Mumbai (St. Xavier's College) in 1963 inMathematics andPhysics, aB.A. fromCambridge University in 1965 in Mathematics (Corpus Christi College, First Class), and aPh.D. in 1968 from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology inEconomics.^[5][6]

Dixit is the John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics atPrinceton University since July 1989, and Emeritus since 2010. He was also distinguished adjunct professor of economics atLingnan University (Hong Kong), senior research fellow atNuffield College, Oxford andSanjaya Lall Senior Visiting Research Fellow atGreen Templeton College, Oxford. He previously taught atMassachusetts Institute of Technology, at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, atBalliol College, Oxford and at theUniversity of Warwick. In 1994 Dixit received the first-ever CES Fellow Award from theCenter for Economic Studies at theUniversity of Munich in Germany. In January 2016, India conferred thePadma Vibhushan – the second highest of India's civilian honors to Dr. Dixit.

Dixit has also held visiting scholar positions at theInternational Monetary Fund and theRussell Sage Foundation. He was president of theEconometric Society in 2001, and was vice-president (2002) and president (2008) of theAmerican Economic Association. He was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992, theNational Academy of Sciences in 2005, and theAmerican Philosophical Society in 2010.^[7] He has also been on the Social Sciences jury for theInfosys Prize from 2011.^[8]

A noted publication was a foundational contribution to the modern development of work on second-best optimum tax theory in his 1975 Welfare effects of tax and price changesJournal of Public Economics. WithRobert Pindyck he is author of "Investment Under Uncertainty" (Princeton University Press, 1994;ISBN 0691034109), the first textbook exclusively about thereal options approach to investments, and described as "a born-classic"^[9] in view of its importance to the theory.^[10]

• 1976.The Theory of Equilibrium Growth.Oxford University Press.
• 1977. "Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity",The American Economic Review, vol. 67, no. 3, p. 297–308, withJoseph E. Stiglitz.
• 1980.Theory of International Trade, withVictor Norman.Cambridge University Press
• [1976] 1990.Optimization in Economic Theory, 2nd ed., Oxford.Description and contentspreview.
• 1991.Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life, withBarry Nalebuff, New York: W.W. Norton.
• 1993.The Art of Smooth Pasting, Vol. 55 of series Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics, eds. Jacques Lesourne and Hugo Sonnenschein. Reading, UK: Harwood Academic Publishers.
• 1996a.Investment Under Uncertainty, co-authored byRobert Pindyck. Princeton University Press.
• 1996b.The Making of Economic Policy: A Transaction Cost Politics Perspective (Munich Lectures in Economics),M.I.T. Press.Description.
• 2004.Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Governance], Gorman Lectures in Economics, University College London,Princeton University Press.Description and ch. 1,Economics With and Without the Law.
• 2008a.The Art of Strategy: A Game-Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life withBarry Nalebuff, New York: W.W. Norton.
• 2008b. "economic governance," inThe New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition.Abstract.
• 2009.Games of Strategy, withSusan Skeath andDavid McAdams, New York: W.W. Norton, 1999, 5th edition 2020.
• 2014.Microeconomics: A Very Short Introduction,Oxford University Press.

• Short biography
• Curriculum vitae
• Recent writings
• Dixit, Avinash;Nalebuff, Barry (2008)."Game Theory". InDavid R. Henderson (ed.).Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2nd ed.). Indianapolis:Library of Economics and Liberty.ISBN 978-0865976658.OCLC 237794267.
• Dixit, Avinash;Nalebuff, Barry (2008)."Prisoner's Dilemma". InDavid R. Henderson (ed.).Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2nd ed.). Indianapolis:Library of Economics and Liberty.ISBN 978-0865976658.OCLC 237794267.

• 1944 births
• Living people
• Indian emigrants to the United States
• Academics of the University of Warwick
• 21st-century American economists
• Fellows of the Econometric Society
• American male writers of Indian descent
• MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
• Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
• Princeton University faculty
• Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford
• Fellows of Nuffield College, Oxford
• St. Xavier's College, Mumbai alumni
• Presidents of the Econometric Society
• 20th-century American non-fiction writers
• 21st-century American non-fiction writers
• 20th-century Indian economists
• Trade economists
• 21st-century Indian economists
• American financial economists
• Real options
• American academics of Indian descent
• Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in literature & education
• Presidents of the American Economic Association
• Writers from Mumbai
• 20th-century American male writers
• Distinguished fellows of the American Economic Association
• American male non-fiction writers
• Scientists from Mumbai
• Corresponding fellows of the British Academy
• 21st-century American male writers
• Members of the American Philosophical Society

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