Robert S. Gibbons (born June 22, 1958) is an American economist, currently the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management at

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. He launched the Working Group on Organizational Economics at the

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in 2002, and was its director until 2022.

Education

*Ph. D. (Decision Sciences), Stanford Graduate School of Business, September 1985. *M. Phil. (Economics, with honours),

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, June 1981. *A. B. (Applied Mathematics, magna cum laude),

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, June 1980.

Selected publications

* *Gibbons, Robert (1992) ''Game Theory for Applied Economists'', Princeton University Press (The non US version is ''A Primer in Game Theory'')

References

Living people MIT Sloan School of Management faculty 21st-century American economists Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni 1958 births Fellows of the Econometric Society {{US-economist-stub