Peter Diamond

Peter Diamond is an institute professor and professor of economics at MIT where he has taught since 1966. He has been president of the American Economic Association, of the Econometric Society, and of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has written on behavioral economics, public finance, social insurance, uncertainty and search theories, and macroeconomics.

He first consulted to U. S. Congress about Social Security reform in 1974. He has consulted about social security to the World Bank and has written about social security in Chile, China, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the U.K., as well as the U.S. He was chair of the Panel on Privatization of Social Security of the National Academy of Social Insurance whose report, "Issues in Privatizing Social Security," has been published by MIT Press. Recent books include Taxation, Incomplete Markets and Social Security, Social Security Reform, and Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach (with Peter R. Orszag). Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices (with Nicholas Barr), published in 2008, will be followed this fall by a shortened version, An Overview of Pension Reform: Principles and Policy Choices.