Marathi Gaurav

When a person of Indian origin gets acclaimed in international arena it almost comes as a personal triumph for a Desi. And it becomes all the more special for a marathi manus when the person is from the Shivaji Land.

Courtesy : rediff.com

Prof Dixit of Princeton elected
to National Academy of Sciences
Suman Guha Mozumder in New York | May 06, 2005 01:28 IST




An internationally acclaimed economist from the Princeton University has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences this week in recognition of his distinguished and continued achievements in original research.



Dr. Avinash Dixit, the John F Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton, was elected to the academy May 3 along with 71 other members from different fields. Besides Dixit, who was born in Bombay and is a naturalized American Citizen, the only other member of Indian origin to be elected this year is Dr Raghunath A Mashelkar, director of general of India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.



Election to the Academy, a private, non-profit institution, is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded to a US scientist or an engineer. The current members elect the new members. The foreign associates are nonvoting members of the academy with citizenship outside the US.



Dixit, 61, a student of economist Paul Samuelson at MIT, was educated at St. Xavier's College, Bombay, Corpus Christie College, Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of technology. An extremely prolific writer, Dixit has taught at MIT, Oxford and at UC Berkeley before joining Princeton in 1981. He has also held visiting scholar positions at the International Monetary Fund, the London School of Economics, the Institute for International Economic Studies in Stockholm and the Russell Sage Foundation.



Dixit's research interests have included microeconomic theory, game theory, international trade, industrial organization, growth and development theories and the new institutional economics. Author of numerous articles published in scholarly journals all over the world, Dixit was the president of the Economic Society in 2001 and a vice-president of the American Economic Association in 2002.