Michael D. Whinston is an American economist and currently the Sloan Fellows Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Previously he was the Robert E. and Emily H. King Professor at Northwestern University and is also a Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Econometric Society.
[1][2] Together with Andreu Mas-Colell and Jerry R. Green he authored the standard US graduate level microeconomics textbook: Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston and Jerry R. Green (1995) Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press Whinston received a bachelors of science in economics and an MBA in finance from Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania.
[4] Frisch Medal: awarded the Frisch Medal in 2016 for a paper he co-authored with Ben Handel and Igal Handel titled “Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection Versus Reclassification Risk.”[5] Distinguished Fellow: received the Industrial Organization Society Distinguished Fellow Award for his contributions and leadership in the field of Industrial Organization.
External Growth in Industries with Scale Economies: A Computational Model of Optimal Merger Policy,” co-authored with Ben Mermelstein, Volker Nocke, and Mark Satterthwaite.