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My Take
Matthew Rabin sits in a category of his own for me. Insisting that economic models account for the fact that humans don't behave like flawless calculators took real intellectual nerve, and the haul of honors backs it up: a Sloan, a MacArthur, and the Clark Medal reserved for the discipline's brightest minds under forty. What I appreciate most is the empathy beneath the rigor. We all fumble our purchases and investments through emotion, and Rabin treated that frailty not as a moral failing but as a serious object of study. There's a generosity in that perspective, and it makes his work quietly humane.
Overview
Matthew Joel Rabin (; born December 27, 1963) is an American economist. He is the Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Harvard Economics Department and Harvard Business School. Rabin's research focuses primarily on incorporating psychologically more realistic assumptions into empirically applicable formal economic theory.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Matthew Rabin
- Name (Japanese)
- マシュー・ラビン
- Reading
- ましゅー・らびん
- Born
- December 27, 1963 (age 62)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Rabbit
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- economist / university teacher
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Springbrook High School
- University
- University of Wisconsin–Madison
Awards & achievements
- 1995 Sloan Fellowship
- 2001 John Bates Clark Medal
- 2000 MacArthur Fellows Program
- 2006 John von Neumann Award
- 2000 Fellow of the Econometric Society
- 2009 Clarivate Citation Laureates
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Economist — see all → · University teacher — see all →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.