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    Leonid Hurwicz (Polish pronunciation: [lɛˈɔɲit ˈxurvitʂ]; August 21, 1917 – June 24, 2008) was a Polish–American economist and mathematician, known for...
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  • Hurwicz (Hebrew: הורביץ), (Russian: Гурвич) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Leonid "Leo" Hurwicz (1917–2008), Jewish Russian-American...
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  • themselves via a deception often called the "noble lie" in English. As Leonid Hurwicz pointed out in his 2007 lecture on accepting the Nobel Memorial Prize...
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    Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich (Russian: Леонид Витальевич Канторович, IPA: [lʲɪɐˈnʲit vʲɪˈtalʲjɪvʲɪtɕ kəntɐˈrovʲɪtɕ] ; 19 January 1912 – 7 April 1986)...
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    Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin for "having laid the foundations of mechanism design...
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    2005". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-20. Seymour "Sy" Brody. "Leonid Hurwicz: Nobel Prize in Economics Recipient-2007". Florida Atlantic University...
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    Kenneth J.; Hurwicz, Leonid (1977), "Appendix: An optimality criterion for decision-making under ignorance", in Arrow, Kenneth J.; Hurwicz, Leonid (eds.),...
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    The 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin, and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of...
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    studies solution concepts for a class of private-information games. Leonid Hurwicz explains that "in a design problem, the goal function is the main given...
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    Robert J. Aumann / Thomas C. Schelling 2006: Edmund S. Phelps 2007: Leonid Hurwicz / Eric S. Maskin / Roger B. Myerson 2008: Paul Krugman 2009: Elinor...
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    (1962). While at the University of Minnesota, his graduate advisor was Leonid Hurwicz, who was awarded the Economics Nobel Prize in 2007. In 1964, McFadden...
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  • Literature, 2010 Maria Ressa, Peace, 2021 Olga Tokarczuk, Literature, 2018 Leonid Hurwicz*, born in then Russian Republic (now Russia), Economics, 2007 Wisława...
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    jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design...
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    rate, Natural rate of unemployment, Statistical discrimination 2007 Leonid Hurwicz (1917–2008)  Poland  United States "for having laid the foundations...
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    Robert J. Aumann / Thomas C. Schelling 2006: Edmund S. Phelps 2007: Leonid Hurwicz / Eric S. Maskin / Roger B. Myerson 2008: Paul Krugman 2009: Elinor...
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    design, a microeconomic system developed by Leonid Hurwicz, to the development of economic experiments. In Hurwicz's formulation, a microeconomic system consists...
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  • pairs sprint canoer Leonid Gobyato (1875–1915), Russian lieutenant-general and designer of the modern, man-portable mortar Leonid Hurwicz (1917–2008), Russian-born...
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    Daniel McFadden (2000), Daniel Kahneman (2002), Robert J. Aumann (2005), Leonid Hurwicz (2007), Roger Myerson (2007), Alvin E. Roth (2012), and Lloyd S. Shapley...
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    Robert J. Aumann / Thomas C. Schelling 2006: Edmund S. Phelps 2007: Leonid Hurwicz / Eric S. Maskin / Roger B. Myerson 2008: Paul Krugman 2009: Elinor...
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  • mechanism design. In 2006, he and the 2007 Nobel prize-winning economist Leonid Hurwicz authored the book Designing Economic Mechanisms. Reiter completed his...
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    Dutch-American mathematician and economist. He was the joint winner with Leonid Kantorovich of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his...
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  • anchor] - biophysicist Robert R. Gilruth - directed the U.S. Moon landing Leonid Hurwicz - economist, academician Finn E. Kydland - economist Edward B. Lewis...
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    Robert J. Aumann / Thomas C. Schelling 2006: Edmund S. Phelps 2007: Leonid Hurwicz / Eric S. Maskin / Roger B. Myerson 2008: Paul Krugman 2009: Elinor...
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    Awards Preceded by Leonid Hurwicz Eric S. Maskin Roger B. Myerson Laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics 2008 Succeeded by Elinor Ostrom Oliver...
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    She is also the third-oldest Nobel laureate in any category (after Leonid Hurwicz and Raymond Davis Jr.). She became the 11th woman to be awarded the...
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    Robert J. Aumann / Thomas C. Schelling 2006: Edmund S. Phelps 2007: Leonid Hurwicz / Eric S. Maskin / Roger B. Myerson 2008: Paul Krugman 2009: Elinor...
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    Robert J. Aumann / Thomas C. Schelling 2006: Edmund S. Phelps 2007: Leonid Hurwicz / Eric S. Maskin / Roger B. Myerson 2008: Paul Krugman 2009: Elinor...
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    Maynard Smith John Nash John von Neumann Kenneth Arrow Kenneth Binmore Leonid Hurwicz Lloyd Shapley Melvin Dresher Merrill M. Flood Olga Bondareva Oskar Morgenstern...
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    emigrated due to historic vicissitudes, among them Benoit Mandelbrot, Leonid Hurwicz, Alfred Tarski, Joseph Rotblat and Nobel Prize laureates Roald Hoffmann...
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    Anthony James Leggett (Physics – 2003) Edmund Phelps (Economics – 2006) Leonid Hurwicz (Economics – 2007) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Peace...
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