Avinash K. Dixit is the John J. F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Along with Thinking Strategically, he is the author of eight other books, including Games of Strategy (with Susan Skeath); Theory of International Trade (with Victor Norman); Investment Under Uncertainty (with Robert Pindyck); The Theory of Equilibrium Growth; and Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Governance.
Professor Dixit has won Princeton’s Economics Department teaching prize and the Von Neumann Award from the Budapest University of Economic Science and Public Administration. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the British Academy. He has been president of the Econometric Society (2001) and the American Economic Association (2008). A graduate of Bombay University and Cambridge University, he earned his doctorate at MIT. He has honorary degrees from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and the University of Warwick.
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