Date/Time
May 21, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Can a Change in the Voting System Depolarize the American Electorate?

Dr. Eric Maskin, Nobel Laureate in Economics in 2007, will discuss potential design changes to the voting system that he believes might lead to more desired outcomes. Finally, Dr. Maskin will share some other gems from his life and career in the Q&A with USF’s Professor Ludwig Chincarini.

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Dr. Eric Maskin is the Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard. He has made contributions to game theory, contract theory, social choice theory, political economy, and other areas of economics.

He received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard and was a postdoctoral fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge University. He was a faculty member at MIT from 1977-1984, Harvard from 1985- 2000, and the Institute for Advanced Study from 2000-2011. He rejoined the Harvard faculty in 2012. In 2007, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (with L. Hurwicz and R. Myerson) for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory.