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...
Alan B. Krueger,
Leon Levy Foundation Member (2007-08) in the School of Social
Science. Some economists view unemployment as a minor concern,
while others argue that it is a serious malady. This Leon Levy
Lecture presents new evidence on the lot of...
Peter Sarnak,
Professor, School of Mathematics. Through the works of Fermat,
Gauss, and Lagrange, we understand which positive integers can be
represented as sums of two, three, or four squares. Hilbert's 11th
problem, from 1900, extends this...
Peter Paret,
Professor Emeritus, School of Historical Studies. From 1933 to
1945, a culture war was waged between National-Socialism and
modernism in the arts. In this lecture, given in conjunction with a
performance by the Princeton Symphony...
Danielle Allen,
UPS Foundation Professor, School of Social Science. The political
season is upon us and so, if they were not before, our newspapers,
radios, computer screens, and televisions are now overfull with
sound-bites; and countless people...
