Professor Peyton Young FBA

Game theory and its application to the evolution of social norms, learning and innovation, theories of distributive justice, and the design of legislative systems.

Elected 2007

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2007
Sections: Economics and Economic History
Website: http://econ.jhu.edu/directory/h-peyton-young/

Current post

Centennial Professor, London School of Economics; Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford

Past appointments

London School of Economics and Political Science Centennial Professor

2017 -

Nuffield College University of Oxford Fellow

2007 -

Game Theory Society President

2006 -

The Brookings Institution Senior Fellow in Economics

1997 -

Johns Hopkins University Scott and Barbara Black Professor of Economics

1994 - 2007

City University, New York Graduate School of the City University of New York

1971 - 1976

Publications

Individual Strategy and Social Structure: An Evolutionary Theory of Institutions Princeton University Press 1998

Equity in Theory and Practice Princeton University Press 1994

'The Evolution of Conventions' Econometrica, 61, 57-84 1993

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Mark Casson FBA

Economics of business: theories of entrepreneurship and international business, with historical applications to medieval towns and industries, Victorian railways and twentieth-century multinational firms

Professor Rachel Griffith FBA

Applied economic analysis of the impact of government policy on economic performance; competition, innovation and productivity; firm pricing behaviour; consumer shopping patterns and nutrition

Professor Hamid Sabourian FBA

Game theory and economic theory; in particular asset prices, bargaining, bounded rationality and complexity, evolutionary games, herd behaviour and social learning, implementation and mechanism design, market games, repeated games, voting