Original: Eric Stark Maskin (born December 12, 1950) is an American economist and Nobel laureate recognized with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory."
Simplified: Eric Stark Maskin (born December 12, 1950) is an American economist who won a Nobel prize with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson, for economics in 2007.