Avinash Kamalakar Dixit, by his own admission, became an economist largely by a series of accidents.
"Starting out as a mathematics undergraduate who liked maths but not pure maths all that much, nor physics applications, I began hunting round for other kinds of applied maths and discovered economics."
Known for his game theory, Dixit's research interests include microeconomic theory, international trade, industrial organisation, growth and development theories, public economics, political economy, and the new institutional economics.
Born in Mumbai in 1944, Dixit studied at St. Xavier's College before heading to Cambridge en route to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he took up economics.
Image: Avinash Dixit at an economic forum
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