Leonid Hurwicz : intelligent designer : how war and the Great Depression inspired a nobel economist / Michael Hurwicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurwicz, Michael, author.

Series:

Jews of Poland Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hurwicz, Leonid.

Economists--United States--Biography.

Economists.

Econometric models.

Institutional economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2023]

Summary:

In 1938, young Leonid Hurwicz leaves Warsaw seeking safety and an economics degree. These challenging years spawn a lifelong intellectual adventure, a stellar career in economics and a Nobel Prize. This book tells his story.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

CHAPTER 1 1939, sierpień/août/August

CHAPTER 2 Born a Refugee

CHAPTER 3 Now or Never

CHAPTER 4 Home Safe?

CHAPTER 5 Get an Education!

CHAPTER 6 The Miracle

CHAPTER 7 Hurwicz Home School

CHAPTER 8 Crisis, Coup, Catastrophe

CHAPTER 9 Astrophysics, Chopin and Jazz

CHAPTER 10 Economics and Einstein

CHAPTER 11 Socialist Calculation

CHAPTER 12 Brown Shirts and Ghetto Benches

CHAPTER 13 Graduation Getaway

CHAPTER 14 Math, Models and Mechanisms

CHAPTER 15 Government Intervention

CHAPTER 16 A Lifeline

CHAPTER 17 Hurwiczes on the Run

CHAPTER 18 An Intellectual Warrior at the School for Peace

CHAPTER 19 Leo Hurwicz: “Excess Foreign Population”

CHAPTER 20 Geneva to Chicago by Way of Locarno, Barcelona and Lisbon

CHAPTER 21 Chicago and MIT

CHAPTER 22 Surprise Attack

CHAPTER 23 Honey

CHAPTER 24 A Little Bit Unruly

CHAPTER 25 The Great Book Review

CHAPTER 26 A Slow and Difficult Process

CHAPTER 27 Just a Closer Walk with Stan

CHAPTER 28 Blood, Fire, Smoke, Exile and Human Kindness

CHAPTER 29 Mechanism Design: Development and Recognition

Epilogue

APPENDIX A Leo’s Memorial

APPENDIX B A Celebration of Leo’s 90th Birthday, Held at the Holiday Inn Metrodome, 1500 Washington Avenue South, in Minneapolis on April 14, 2007

APPENDIX C The Theory of Economic Behavior, by Leonid Hurwicz

APPENDIX D The Hurwicz Criterion

APPENDIX E Edited Transcript of 2007 Interview with Leo, Conducted by the Author

APPENDIX F A Timeline of the Life of Leo Hurwicz

APPENDIX G What Is Mechanism Design?

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9798887191355

OCLC:

1378393026