Rocer Mayerson 29 mart1951-ci ildə yəhudi bir ailənin övladı olaraq anadan olmuşdur. Harvard Universitetində magistr və doktorluq dərəcəsinə yüksəlmişdir. Doktorluq dissertasiyasının mövzusu Kooperativ oyunlar nəzəriyyəsi (ing.A Theory of Cooperative Games) idi.[3]
"Graphs and Cooperation in Games," Mathematics of Operations Research 2 (1977), 225–229.
"Two-Person Bargaining Problems and Comparable Utility," Econometrica 45 (1977), 1631–1637.
"Refinements of the Nash Equilibrium Concept," International Journal of Game Theory 7 (1978), 73–80.
"Incentive Compatibility and the Bargaining Problem," Econometrica 47 (1979), 61–73.
"Optimal Auction Design," Mathematics of Operations Research 6 (1981), 58–73.
"Mechanism Design by an Informed Principal," Econometrica 51 (1983), 1767–1797.
"Two-Person Bargaining Problems with Incomplete Information," Econometrica 52 (1984), 461–487.
"Bayesian Equilibrium and Incentive Compatibility," in Social Goals and Social Organization, edited by L. Hurwicz, D. Schmeidler, and Hugo Sonnenschein, Cambridge University Press (1985), 229–259.
Rocer Mayerson siyasi qurumların iqtisadi analizi haqqında da bir sıra məqalələr yazmışdır:
"Analysis of Democratic Institutions: Structure, Conduct, and Performance," Journal of Economic Perspectives 9:1 (1995), 77–89.
"Economic Analysis of Political Institutions: An Introduction," Advances in Economic Theory and Econometrics: Theory and Applications, volume 1, edited by D. Kreps and K. Wallis (Cambridge University Press, 1997), pages 46–65.
"Theoretical Comparisons of Electoral Systems," European Economic Review 43 (1999), 671–697.