Stanley Reiter is an American

United States

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 economist and Emeritus Professor at Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

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Reiter completed his A.B. with honors in economics from Queens College in 1947. He then completed his M.A. (1950) and Ph.D. in economics (1955) from the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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. From 1949 to 1954, he was associated with Stanford University

Stanford University

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 as an instructor and a research associate. From 1954 to 1967, he was at the faculty of Purdue University

Purdue University

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

. He joined the faculty at Northwestern University in 1967.

Reiter is a leading pioneer in the field of mechanism design

Mechanism design

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