Peter Diamond
Peter Diamond | |
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Diamond in 2010 | |
| Born | Peter Arthur Diamond April 29, 1940 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Spouse | Kate Myrick |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Yale University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, PhD) |
| Thesis | Essays on optimal economic growth (1963) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Solow |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political economics Welfare economics Behavioral economics |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral students | Martin Hellwig David K. Levine Andrei Shleifer Emmanuel Saez Botond Kőszegi |
| Awards | Nemmers Prize in Economics (1994) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2010) |
| Website | |
| Notes | |
Peter Arthur Diamond (born April 29, 1940) is an American economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010, along with Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides. He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On June 6, 2011, he withdrew his nomination to serve on the Federal Reserve's board of governors, citing intractable Republican opposition for 14 months.