Robert C. Merton

Robert Cox Merton (born July 31, 1944) is an American economist. He is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In 1993 Merton co-founded hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management. 

In 1997 Merton, with Myron Scholes, won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

References

Other websites
 Official Website
 Page at the Harvard Business School
 PBS, Nova – Trillion Dollar Bet (2000)

Category:1944 births
Category:Living people
Category:American economists
Category:Scientists from New York City
Category:Nobel Prize in Economics winners