Robert S. Gibbons (born June 22, 1958) is an American economist, currently the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

Education

*Ph. D. (Decision Sciences),

Stanford Graduate School of Business The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective business schoo ...

, September 1985. *M. Phil. (Economics, with honours), Cambridge University, June 1981. *A. B. (Applied Mathematics, magna cum laude),

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, June 1980.

Selected publications

* *Gibbons, Robert (1992) ''Game Theory for Applied Economists'', Princeton University Press (The non US version is ''A Primer in Game Theory'')

References

Living people MIT Sloan School of Management faculty 21st-century American economists Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni 1958 births Fellows of the Econometric Society {{US-economist-stub