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 Paul Milgrom is an economist who has been instrumental in a lot of economic theories that are widely used today. Dr. Milgrom is the Shirley and Leonard Ely (a fellowship that he is a part of) professor in Stanford's department of economics and teaches humanities and science. He has numerous degrees from University of Michigan, Stanford.

His work is quite important as he researched and made quite a few contributions to game theory. I read up on the some of the work he did and it is quite relevant to the course. He applied his previous search of game theory to the research of organizations. He utilized several methods to describe about how manufacturing has evolved over time and how they can be more efficient.

I did not know Dr. Milgrom at all before I was assigned this alias but after researching I understand now how important he is to the field of economics.



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  1. Professor ArvanSeptember 12, 2019 at 5:03 AM

    He's also one of the authors of the textbook we are using for this course. Milgrom and Roberts wrote many papers together.

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    1. Paul MilgromOctober 13, 2019 at 1:37 PM

      I noticed that after reading about Milgrom, he is quite accomplished not only academically but in also key governmental policy and businesses. He, along with others were instrumental in designing a multiple round auction that was implemented by the FCC/

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