Born in 1958, he graduated from Uni High, Urbana, Illinois, and received his Economics B.A./M.A from Yale in 1980 and his Economics PhD from MIT in 1984. He is best known as the author of Games and Information, and has published over fifty articles in scholarly journals and several amicus briefs. His primary research areas are law and economics, the Japanese legal system, anti-trust law, and industrial organization. He is currently a director of the MIT Free Speech Alliance and a teacher of seventh-grade math at Cedars Christian School.