Michael Whinston

Michael Whinston
Born (1959-02-03) February 3, 1959
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materMIT
University of Pennsylvania
Doctoral advisorFranklin M. Fisher
Academic work
InstitutionsMIT
Northwestern University
Harvard University
Website

Michael D. Whinston is an American economist and currently the Sloan Fellows Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously he was the Robert E. and Emily H. King Professor at Northwestern University and is also a Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Econometric Society. Together with Andreu Mas-Colell and Jerry R. Green he authored the standard US graduate level microeconomics textbook: Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston and Jerry R. Green (1995) Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press