Peter Diamond
Nobel prize in economics winner · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1940 · age 86
Peter Arthur Diamond 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.
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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.
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Tjalling KoopmansBoth received Fisher-Schultz Lecture
Thomas J. SargentBoth received Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics
Simon JohnsonBoth received Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Douglas DiamondBoth received Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Bengt HolmströmBoth received Fisher-Schultz Lecture
Jean TiroleBoth received Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics