Eric Maskin : (3)

" If I buy a car, I use the car, you don’t, and the market for cars works pretty well. But there are many other sorts of goods, often very important goods, which are not provided well through the market. Often, these go under the heading of public goods. " - Eric Maskin

" I think I have met nearly all the Laureates in Economics. Among the few I haven’t met, I suppose I’d most like to meet Ronald Coase because of his legendary power to persuade his colleagues of the validity of the Coase Theorem. " - Eric Maskin

" In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them. " - Eric Maskin