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I think I have met nearly all the Laureates in Economics. Among the few I haven't met, I suppose I'd most like to meet Ronald Coase because of his legendary power to persuade his colleagues of the validity of the Coase Theorem.

~Eric Maskin

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I choose questions to work on according to how much they excite me.

~Eric Maskin

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In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments were sold off to the private sector in the hope that this would lead to a more efficient allocation, that these assets would be put to better use.

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Prediction is certainly a valuable goal in science, but not the only one. Explanation is also important, and there are plenty of sciences that do a lot of explaining and not much predicting.

~Eric Maskin

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I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely.

~Eric Maskin

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There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air.

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The market is no god - it cannot solve every problem.

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Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem.

~Eric Maskin

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I have a strong attachment to Harvard.

~Eric Maskin

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I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.

~Eric Maskin

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: December 12th, 1950

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