Eric Maskin Good Quotations

It wasn't that Harvard was deliberately trying to overwork me, but I think I had a tendency to take on more things out of enthusiasm than were good for me.

How do we ensure in the case of public goods that they are provided at all, and that they are provided at the right level, taking into account citizens' preferences?

Markets work well with goods that economists call private goods.

Economic forecasting has actually got pretty good over the years, though admittedly, we don't always get it right.

There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air.

What we mean by an outcome will naturally depend on the context. Thus, for a government charged with delivering public goods, an outcome will consist of the quantities provided of such goods as intercity highways, national defense and security, environmental protection, and public education together with the arrangements by which they are financed.