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Leonid Hurwicz was a Polish–American economist and mathematician, known for his work in game theory and mechanism design. He originated the concept of incentive compatibility, and showed how desired outcomes can be achieved by using incentive compatible mechanism design. Hurwicz shared the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work on mechanism design. Hurwicz was one of t…
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science · Polish–American economist and mathematician (1917–2008) · mathematician · economist · university teacher · also Leonid Hurwicz, Leo Hurwicz, Hurwicz
Born 21 August 1917 · Died 24 June 2008 · Q157262
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The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota launched the Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute, a global initiative created to inform public policy by supporting and promoting frontier economic research and b
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Star Tribune: Leonid Hurwicz won Nobel in economics
Died 2008-06-24.
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“There were times when other people said I was on the short list, but as time passed and nothing happened, I didn’t expect the recognition would come because people who were familiar with my work were slowly dying off.”
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences — for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory.
Awarded Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2007).
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Said, "Whatever economics I learned I learned by listening and learning
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His ongoing research was described by the University of Minnesota as "comparison and analysis of systems and techniques of economic organization, welfare economics, game-theoretic implementation of social choice goals, a
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Won National Medal of Science (1990).
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In Behavioral and Social Science, presented to him by President of the United States George H
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And 1989, at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1998), the California Institute of Technology (1999) and the University of Michigan in (2002)
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Hurwicz taught graduate school as professor emeritus most recently in the fall of 2006
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Was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences and in 1977 was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
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As a McCarthy delegate from Minnesota to the Democratic Party Convention and a member of the Democratic Party Platform Committee
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And, during the 1980s, at Tokyo University, People's University (now Renmin University of China) and the University of Indonesia
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Was a member of the National Science Foundation Commission on Weather Modification
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Regents Professor of Economics in 1969, and Curtis L
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And again in 1958 Hurwicz was a visiting professor, and a fellow on the second visit, at Stanford University and there in 1959 published "Optimality and Informational Efficiency in Resource Allocation Processes" on mecha
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Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1953).
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Becoming Regents' Professor of Economics in 1969, and Curtis L
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Where he became a professor of economics and mathematics in the School of Business Administration
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The Hurwicz criterion is thought about to this day in the area of decision making called "under uncertainty
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And the United States National Research Council in 1954
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Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society (1947).
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Became an associate professor of economics at Iowa State College
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1945).
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And later lived at a number of locations in Minneapolis
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Hurwicz was a research assistant to Paul Samuelson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and to Oskar Lange at the University of Chicago
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Hurwicz worked as a research assistant for Paul Samuelson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Oskar Lange at the University of Chicago
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Hurwicz and his family experienced persecution by both the Bolsheviks and Nazis, as he again became a refugee when Germany invaded Poland in 1939.
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Moved to Geneva where he studied at the Graduate Institute of International Studies
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At the time of Nazi invasion on Poland was in London, moved to Switzerland then to Portugal and finally in 1940 he emigrated to the United States
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Born 1917-08-21.
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