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Peter Diamond is an American economist who serves as a professor of economics at MIT.
Peter Diamond is an economist, professor, author and analyst. He studied economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University. He is a leading authority on social security, pensions and taxes in the United States.
He is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has experience as an advisor to the US Advisory Council on Social Security and has published numerous articles and books of acclaim as an analyst of US social security policy.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (2010) along with Dale Mortensen and Cristobal Pissarides, for work that analyzes the fundamentals of search markets and contributes to the development of theories that help explain how economic policies can affect unemployment.
