Matthew O. Jackson is Professor of Economics at Stanford University.
He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a B.A. from Princeton University.
He was previously on the faculty at the California Institute of
Technology, and Northwestern University. A fellow of the Econometric
Society, Jackson has received the Social Choice and Welfare Prize
and Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and from the Center
for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences. He has written widely
in game theory and social choice theory. His work on social and
economic networks incorporates game-theoretic reasoning into the
study of network formation and explains the role of social networks
in jobs search, wage inequality and social mobility.
