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Eric Maskin, an Uncommon card
Eric Stark Maskin is an American economist and mathematician.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 39
- Power
- 102
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 18,000
Power 102 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Eric Maskin quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Eric Maskin card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is the Adams University Professor and Professor of ______ and Mathematics at Harvard University.
Answer
Economics. He is the Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard University. From the Eric Maskin article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He was jointly awarded the ____ Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory".
Answer
2000s. He was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory". From the Eric Maskin article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory".
- He is the Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard University.
- Until 2011, he was the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, and a visiting lecturer with the rank of professor at Princeton University.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Eric Maskin article was read about 18,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 39: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Eric Maskin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Nomo michael hoefner http://www.zwo5.de, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
