ECONOMIST

Leonid Hurwicz

1917 - 2008

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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 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 (with Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson) for his seminal work on mechanism design. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonid Hurwicz has received more than 309,716 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Leonid Hurwicz is the 72nd most popular economist (up from 83rd in 2019), the 304th most popular biography from Russia (up from 323rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Economist.

Leonid Hurwicz is most famous for his work in welfare economics. He developed the concept of Pareto efficiency and showed that a competitive equilibrium is Pareto efficient.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Leonid Hurwicz ranks 72 out of 414. Before him are Trygve Haavelmo, Ben Bernanke, Kenneth Arrow, Arthur Cecil Pigou, Nikolai Kondratiev, and Harry Markowitz. After him are James Tobin, Henry Mintzberg, John Kenneth Galbraith, W. Edwards Deming, Eugen Dühring, and Reinhard Selten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Leonid Hurwicz ranks 42. Before him are Fernando Rey, Herbert A. Hauptman, Kiro Gligorov, John Kendrew, Jane Wyman, and George Gaynes. After him are Mel Ferrer, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, Danielle Darrieux, Edward Norton Lorenz, Jack Kirby, and Manolete. Among people deceased in 2008, Leonid Hurwicz ranks 33. Before him are Roy Scheider, Jules Dassin, Heath Ledger, Jörg Haider, George Emil Palade, and John Archibald Wheeler. After him are Mel Ferrer, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, Thomas Huckle Weller, Aimé Césaire, Edward Norton Lorenz, and Ivan Rebroff.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leonid Hurwicz ranks 304 out of 3,761. Before him are Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia (1871), Viktor Shklovsky (1893), Sergei Skripal (1951), Nikolai Kondratiev (1892), Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937), and Viktor Korchnoi (1931). After him are Kirill Meretskov (1897), Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (1832), Alexandre Kojève (1902), Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893), Alexander Yegorov (1883), and Georgy Chicherin (1872).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Russia

Among economists born in Russia, Leonid Hurwicz ranks 2. Before him are Nikolai Kondratiev (1892). After him are Nikolay Danilevsky (1822), Eugen Slutsky (1880), Petr Aven (1955), Alexander Chayanov (1888), Ladislaus Bortkiewicz (1868), Leonid Abalkin (1930), Arkady Dvorkovich (1972), Tatyana Golikova (1966), Andrei Shleifer (1961), and Olga Golodets (1962).

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