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{{Short description|American economist}}
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| name = Avinash Dixit
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1944|8|6}}
| birth_place = [[Mumbai|Bombay]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]]
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| alma_mater = [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai]] (B.Sc.) 
[[University of Mumbai]] [[University of Cambridge]] (B.A.) [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] (Ph.D.)
| nationality = [[United States]]
| institution = [[Princeton University]] [[Lingnan University (Hong Kong)]] [[Nuffield College, Oxford]] [[University of Warwick]]
| field = [[Economics]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[Robert Solow]]<ref>[http://library.mit.edu/F/T9P3DKEKJSNFGNAXD2VVVY7YURR3FR64YCTVNSKCVGSS2K6DHR-20728?func=find-b&find_code=WRD&request=Avinash+Dixit Development planning in a dual economy.]</ref>
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| doctoral_students= [[Vijay Kelkar]] [[Robert Helsley]] [[Dani Rodrik]]<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Medium.com|title=Dani Rodrik on Premature Deindustrialization and Why the World is Second Best, at Best (Ep. 4 - Live at Mason) (A Conversation with Dani Rodrik)|date=1 October 2015|url=https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/a-conversation-with-dani-rodrik-e02cf8784b9d | access-date=21 December 2018}}</ref>
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| influenced = [[Paul Krugman]]
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| awards = [[Padma Vibhushan]] [[John von Neumann Award]] (2001)
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'''Avinash Kamalakar Dixit''' (born 6 August 1944) is an [[Indian-American]] economist.<ref>{{cite journal | title=Fun & Games | journal=Finance & Development |date=December 2010 | volume=47 | series=People in Economics | issue=4 | url=http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2010/12/people.htm | author=Jeremy Clift}}</ref> He is the John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics [[Emeritus]] at [[Princeton University]],<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Department of Economics, Princeton University|title=Avinash K. Dixit, Home Page|url=https://www.princeton.edu/~dixitak/home/|access-date=19 August 2013}}</ref> and has been Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at [[Lingnan University (Hong Kong)]], senior research fellow at [[Nuffield College, Oxford]] and [[Sanjaya Lall]] Senior Visiting Research Fellow at [[Green Templeton College, Oxford]].

== Education ==
Dixit received a [[B.Sc.]] from [[University of Mumbai]] ([[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai|St. Xavier's College]]) in 1963 in [[Mathematics]] and [[Physics]], a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from [[Cambridge University]] in 1965 in Mathematics ([[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge|Corpus Christi College]], First Class), and a [[Ph.D.]] in 1968 from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in [[Economics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Avinash Kamalakar Dixit {{!}} Dean of the Faculty|url=https://dof.princeton.edu/about/clerk-faculty/emeritus/avinash-kamalakar-dixit|access-date=2020-10-21|website=dof.princeton.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Avinash Dixit {{!}} John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics Emeritus, Princeton University|url=https://blogs.worldbank.org/team/avinash-dixit|access-date=2020-10-21|website=blogs.worldbank.org|language=en}}</ref>

== Career ==
Dixit is the John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at [[Princeton University]] since July 1989, and Emeritus since 2010. He was also Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at [[Lingnan University (Hong Kong)]], senior research fellow at [[Nuffield College, Oxford]] and [[Sanjaya Lall]] senior visiting research fellow at [[Green Templeton College, Oxford]]. He previously taught at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], at [[Balliol College, Oxford]] and at the [[University of Warwick]]. In 1994 Dixit received the first-ever CES Fellow Award from the [[Center for Economic Studies]] at the [[University of Munich]]. In January 2016, India conferred the [[Padma Vibhushan]] - the second highest of India's civilian honors to Dr. Dixit.

Dixit has also held visiting scholar positions at the [[International Monetary Fund]] and the [[Russell Sage Foundation]]. He was President of the [[Econometric Society]] in 2001, and was Vice-President (2002) and President (2008) of the [[American Economic Association]]. He was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1992, the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] in 2005, and the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Avinash+K.+Dixit&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-04-14|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> He has also been on the Social Sciences jury for the [[Infosys Prize]] from 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Infosys Prize - Jury 2020|url=http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/jury/jury-2020.asp#Social-Sciences|access-date=2020-12-09|website=www.infosys-science-foundation.com}}</ref>

With [[Robert Pindyck]] he is author of "Investment Under Uncertainty" ([[Princeton University Press]], 1994; {{ISBN|0691034109}}), the first textbook exclusively about the [[real options]] approach to investments, and described as "a born-classic" [http://marcoagd.usuarios.rdc.puc-rio.br/bib_d&p.html] in view of its importance to the theory.

== Selected publications ==
* 1976. ''The Theory of Equilibrium Growth''. [[Oxford University Press]].
*1977. "Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity", ''[[The American Economic Review]]'', vol. 67, no. 3, p. 297–308, with [[Joseph Stiglitz|Joseph E. Stiglitz]].
* 1980. ''Theory of International Trade'', with [[Victor Norman]]. [[Cambridge University Press]]
* [1976] 1990. ''Optimization in Economic Theory'', 2nd ed., Oxford. [https://books.google.com/books?id=dHrsHz0VocUC&pg=PA194 Description] and contents [https://books.google.com/books?id=dHrsHz0VocUC&pg=PR7 preview].
* 1991. ''[[Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life]]'', with [[Barry Nalebuff]], New York: W.W. Norton.
* 1993. ''The Art of Smooth Pasting'', Vol. 55 of series Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics, eds. Jacques Lesourne and Hugo Sonnenschein. Reading, UK: Harwood Academic Publishers.
* 1996a.''Investment Under Uncertainty'', co-authored by [[Robert Pindyck]]. Princeton University Press.
* 1996b. ''The Making of Economic Policy: A Transaction Cost Politics Perspective (Munich Lectures in Economics)'', [[M.I.T. Press]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120126150744/http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=4922 Description].
* 2004. ''Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Governance]'', Gorman Lectures in Economics, University College London, [[Princeton University Press]]. [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7729.html Description] and ch. 1, [http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s7729.pdf Economics With and Without the Law].
* 2008a. ''The Art of Strategy: A Game-Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life'' with [[Barry Nalebuff]], New York: W. W. Norton.
* 2008b. "economic governance," in ''[[The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics]]'', 2nd Edition. [http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/article?id=pde2008_E000260 Abstract].
* 2009. ''[http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=13399 Games of Strategy]'', with [[Susan Skeath]], New York: W. W. Norton, 1999, 5th edition 2020.
* 2014. ''Microeconomics: A Very Short Introduction'', [[Oxford University Press]].

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://www.princeton.edu/~dixitak/home/DixitShortBio.pdf Short biography]
* [https://www.princeton.edu/~dixitak/home/Dixit_CV.pdf Curriculum vitae]
* [https://www.princeton.edu/~dixitak/home/wrkps.html Recent writings]
* {{cite encyclopedia |last1=Dixit |first1=Avinash |last2= Nalebuff |first2=Barry |author-link2=Barry Nalebuff |editor=David R. Henderson |editor-link=David R. Henderson |encyclopedia=[[Concise Encyclopedia of Economics]] |title=Game Theory |url=http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/GameTheory.html |year=2008 |edition= 2nd |publisher=[[Library of Economics and Liberty]] |location=Indianapolis |isbn=978-0865976658 |oclc=237794267}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |last1=Dixit |first1=Avinash |last2= Nalebuff |first2=Barry |author-link2=Barry Nalebuff |editor=David R. Henderson |editor-link=David R. Henderson |encyclopedia=[[Concise Encyclopedia of Economics]] |title=Prisoner's Dilemma |url=http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/PrisonersDilemma.html |year=2008 |edition= 2nd |publisher=[[Library of Economics and Liberty]] |location=Indianapolis |isbn=978-0865976658 |oclc=237794267}}

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