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Eric Maskin

Also known as Eric S. Maskin (OpenAlex)

American Nobel laureate in economicsborn 1950

Supervised 2 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Kenneth Arrow as doctoral advisor and lists 69 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Eric Maskin, pictured

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How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students2

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata69

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 518 people: 64 cited by thesis records, 456 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career10

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.