Peter Diamond

Peter Diamond

Institute Professor and Professor of Economics, Emeritus

Research Fields

Labor Economics, Macroeconomics, Public Economics

Contact Information

Office Phone 617-253-3363
Email Address pdiamond@mit.edu
Office E52-450
Assistant Name Lauren Fahey
Assistant Phone 617-253-4669

Bio

Peter Diamond is an Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT, where he taught from 1966 to 2011. He first consulted to Congress about Social Security reform in 1974. He has analyzed pension systems in many countries. His books include Issues in Privatizing Social Security, Report of an Expert Panel of the National Academy of Social Insurance (editor), Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach (with Peter Orszag), Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices and Pension Reform: A Short Guide (both with Nicholas Barr). He has been President of the American Economic Association, of the Econometric Society, and of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He was one of the three winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for analysis of markets with search frictions.

Recent Awards

2019
Honorary Doctor of Business Administration, Macau University of Science and Technology
2013
Honorary Member, Bilim Akademisi – The Science Academy, Istanbul, Turkey

2010
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for analysis of markets with search frictions.
2008
The Robert M. Ball Award is presented to an individual whose recent work has made a significant impact on the U.S. social insurance system.
2005
The Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize which is awarded to a renowned international economist whose research, in the spirit of the work undertaken by Professor Jean-Jacques Laffont, combines both the theoretical and the empirical.