Michael D. Whinston is an American economist and currently the Sloan Fellows Professor at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

. Previously he was the Robert E. and Emily H. King Professor at

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

and is also a Fellow to the

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and

Econometric Society The Econometric Society is an international society of academic economists interested in applying statistical tools in the practice of econometrics. It is an independent organization with no connections to societies of professional mathematicians o ...

. Together with

Andreu Mas-Colell Andreu Mas-Colell (; born 29 June 1944) is an economist, an expert in microeconomics and a prominent mathematical economist. He is the founder of the Barcelona School of Economics and a professor in the department of economics at Pompeu Fabra ...

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

Education

Whinston received a bachelors of science in economics and an MBA in finance from Wharton at the

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. He then went on to receive a PhD in economics from

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Personal life

Whinston is married to political theorist and Brown University professor

Bonnie Honig Bonnie Honig (born 1959) is a political, feminist, and legal theorist specializing in democratic theory. In 2013–14, she became Nancy Duke Lewis Professor-Elect of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science at Brown University, succeeding A ...

Honors

Frisch Medal: awarded the Frisch Medal in 2016 for a paper he co-authored with Ben Handel and Igal Handel titled “Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection Versus Reclassification Risk.” Distinguished Fellow: received the Industrial Organization Society Distinguished Fellow Award for his contributions and leadership in the field of Industrial Organization. Robert F. Lanzilliotti Prize: won the 2014 Robert F. Lanzilliotti Prize for his paper “Internal Vs. External Growth in Industries with Scale Economies: A Computational Model of Optimal Merger Policy,” co-authored with Ben Mermelstein, Volker Nocke, and Mark Satterthwaite. The award is given to the best paper in antitrust economics.

References

Living people MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty 21st-century American economists Wharton School alumni MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1959 births Fellows of the Econometric Society {{US-economist-stub