Benjamin "Ben" Polak is a British professor of economics

Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

 and management at Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

. From 1999-2004 Polak was the Henry Kohn Associate Professor of Economics and is now the inaugural William C. Brainard Professor of Economics.

Polak specialises in microeconomic theory and has published 19 peer reviewed papers in leading journals, and is Associate editor of the Journal of Economic Theory

Journal of Economic Theory

The Journal of Economic Theory, often referred to as JET, is an important scholarly journal in the field of economics. Although the journal was originally intended as a specialty journal in mathematical economics, JET is now generally regarded as the leading journal in economic theory and one of...

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Game Theory ECON 159

In fall 2007, Polak participated in the Open Yale Courses

Open Yale Courses

Open Yale Courses is a project of Yale University to share full video and course materials from its undergraduate courses.Open Yale Courses provides free access to a selection of introductory courses....

 initiative, recording the 24 lecture series and making all course materials freely available on the Internet. Polak describes the motivation for his participation in the scheme as delivering an Ivy League

Ivy League

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 standard education to a wider audience, "It’s not the full Yale experience, unfortunately, but it’s something.”

External links

• Game Theory course by Benjamin Polak with video lectures, at Open Yale Courses
  Open Yale Courses
  Open Yale Courses is a project of Yale University to share full video and course materials from its undergraduate courses.Open Yale Courses provides free access to a selection of introductory courses....