Andy has authored over 25 books and 400 peer-reviewed publications. He has published many papers in economics journals such as American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Mathematical Economics, and in information systems journals such as Decision Support Systems, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Information Systems Research. He has also published in multidisciplinary journals such as Management Science, Decision Sciences, and Organization Science, in operations journals such as Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Production Research, and Naval Research Logistics. Additionally, he has published in mathematics journals such as Journal of Combinatorics, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, and Discrete Mathematics, in accounting journals such as the Accounting Review, in marketing journals such as Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, and Journal of Retailing, and in computer science journals such as Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, ACM Transactions, IEEE Computing on Internet Technology, and ACM Journal on Mobile Networking and Applications.
Andrew B. Whinston
May 24, 2025
Andrew B. Whinston is an American economist and computer scientist. He is the Harkins & Company Centennial Distinguished University Chair, the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration, a professor of Information Systems, Computer Science, and Economics, and the Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce (CREC), in the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin.
Andy was a Sanxsay Fellow at Princeton University in 1957-1958. He received his PhD from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1962. Andy joined Yale as an assistant professor in economics in 1961 where he was a member of the Cowles Foundation. He received the Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Economic Theory in 1962. Andy became an associate professor of economics at the University of Virginia in 1964, and 2 years later, became Purdue University's inaugural Weiler Distinguished Professor of management, economics, and computer science.
In 2005, Andy received the LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems (IS). In 2009, the INFORMS Information System Society (ISS) recognized Andy as the inaugural INFORMS ISS Fellow for contributions to IS research. In 2011, he was rated as the most influential IS scholar.