2011 Robert Rosenthal Memorial Lecture: How Should Presidents Be Elected?

Eric Maskin, a Nobel laureate and the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, delivers the sixth annual Robert Rosenthal Memorial Lecture, on the topic of how presidents should be elected. Maskin is best known for his work on the theory of mechanism design. Along with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson, he was awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for having “laid the foundations of mechanism design theory.“ He is recognized