After teaching stints at the University of California, Berkeley and Balliol College, Oxford, and the University of Warwick, Dixit joined Princeton in 1981.
Generally a non-controversial person, Dixit, once took a dig at fellow economists, when, in an address to the World bank he said, research in economics is ambiguous and confusing, with high-quality economists disagreeing with each other even on the most basic issues.
He is the co-author of the books Games of Strategy,Thinking Strategically with Barry Nalebuff of the Yale School of Management, and Investment under Uncertainty with Robert Pindyck.
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.
Image: A monument to Nobel Prize founder Alfred Nobel stands in New York City | Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images
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