LEONID HURWICZ

2007 Nobel Laureate in Economics

for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory.

• Born: August 21, 1917
• Place of birth: Moscow, Russia
• Residence: US
• Affiliation: Department of Economics, University of Minnesota
  • Address:
    1008 Heller Hall
    Minneapolis, MN 55455
• Tel: 612-625-5808
• E-mail: hurwicz@umn.edu
• Education:
  • Warsaw University, Poland.LL.M. 1938

• Designing Economic Mechanisms by Leonid Hurwicz (Author), Stanley Reiter (Author)
• Social Goals and Social Organization: Essays in Memory of Elisha Pazner by Leonid Hurwicz (Editor), David Schmeidler (Editor), Hugo Sonnenschein (Editor)
• Studies in Resource Allocation Processes by Kenneth J. Arrow (Editor), Leonid Hurwicz (Editor)
• Books on Leonid Hurwicz

• Prize co-recipient: Eric S. Maskin
• Prize co-recipient: Roger B. Myerson
• Homepage at University of Minnesota
• Major works of Leonid Hurwicz
• Official award announcement and background
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