U.S. presidential elections often drive many citizens to vote
strategically—to vote for a candidate they do not like in hope of
preventing someone they dislike even more from winning. Many who
favored Ralph Nader in the 2000 election ended up voting...
Eric Maskin,
Albert O. Hirschman Professor, School of Social Science. Eric
Maskin shared the
2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work in
Mechanism Design Theory. This is the study of how, given an
economic or social goal, we can design a...
Eric Maskin,
Albert O. Hirschmann Professor, School of Social Science.
Proponents of free trade have argued that expanding global markets
should reduce income inequality in poorer countries. So far,
however, there is no compelling evidence that...
