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Professor Avinash Kamalakar Dixit DOCTOR OF SOCIAL SCIENCES honoris causa Citation Professor Avinash Dixit is an exceptionally distinguished member of the economics profession. Born in Bombay where he studied Mathematics and Physics, he was further educated at Cambridge University where he graduated with First Class in Mathematics, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received his PhD in Economics in 1968. He was an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and professor at the University of Warwick, before joining Princeton University in 1981 where he remained affiliated ever since. Professor Dixit has made fundamental contributions to numerous major fields of economics including microeconomics, macroeconomics, international economics, finance (investment under uncertainty), international trade, industrial organization, public economics, law and institutions of economic governance, political economy, and growth and development. He has been President of the two most important economics organizations in the world: the Econometric Society and the American Economic Association, and is also an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts Sciences, the Econometric Society, a Foreign Fellow of the British Academy, and earlier this year was elected Fellow of the American Philosophical Society. Professor Dixit’s path-breaking article on “Monopolistic competition and optimum product diversity,” co-authored with Professor Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel laureate 2001 and Lingnan honorary doctorate 2005) and published in the American Economic Review in 1977, unified the two rival macroeconomics camps of neoclassical economics and neo-Keynesian economics, laying down the foundation for the synthesis of modern