Re: McArthur grantee

[Brad De Long]

He's brilliant, and very witty: good company. Lots of interesting 
ideas about how game theory should be developed...


>this fellow got a McArthur grant yesterday.  Anybody know of him?
>
>
>Matthew Rabin
>
>                                      Professor of Economics
>                                      University of California, Berkeley
>                                      Age: 36
>                                      Residence: San Francisco,
>California
>                                      Links: Matthew Rabin's home page
>
>                                      Rabin is a pioneer in behavioral
>economics, a field that applies
>                                      such psychological insights as
>fairness, impulsiveness, biases, and
>                                      risk aversion to economic theory
>and research. He is credited
>                                      with influencing the practice of
>economics by seamlessly
>                                      integrating psychology and
>economics, freeing economists to talk with new
>                                      perspectives on such phenomena as
>group behavior and addiction. Rabin has
>                                      demonstrated particular strength in
>distilling from psychological research those
>                                      insights that can be modeled
>mathematically.