Michael Whinston | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 3, 1959 |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic career | |
| Institution | MIT Northwestern University Harvard University |
| Alma mater | MIT University of Pennsylvania |
| Doctoral advisor | Franklin M. Fisher |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Michael D. Whinston is an American economist and currently the Sloan Fellows Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously he was the Robert E. and Emily H. King Professor at Northwestern University and is also a Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Econometric Society.[1][2] Together with Andreu Mas-Colell 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