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William Vickrey

1914 - 1996

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William Spencer Vickrey (21 June 1914 – 11 October 1996) was a Canadian-American professor of economics and Nobel Laureate. He was a lifelong faculty member at Columbia University. A theorist who worked on public economics and mechanism design, Vickrey primarily discussed public policy problems. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Vickrey has received more than 221,116 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). William Vickrey is the 89th most popular economist (up from 99th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Canada (up from 56th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, William Vickrey ranks 89 out of 414. Before him are Richard Thaler, Edmund Phelps, Lawrence Klein, James M. Buchanan, Alfred Weber, and Charles Cooley. After him are Robert Reich, Robert Lucas Jr., Claudia Goldin, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, George Akerlof, and Jacques Attali.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, William Vickrey ranks 35. Before him are Jonas Salk, Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, Philippe Ariès, Desmond Llewelyn, Etty Hillesum, and Gino Bartali. After him are Gino Colaussi, Louis, Prince Napoléon, Max Perutz, Tyrone Power, Vjekoslav Luburić, and Dylan Thomas. Among people deceased in 1996, William Vickrey ranks 39. Before him are Gladwyn Jebb, Masaki Kobayashi, Nicu Ceaușescu, Mohammad Najibullah, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, and Victor Ambartsumian. After him are António de Spínola, Shūsaku Endō, Claudette Colbert, Georges Duby, Alain Poher, and Fujiko Fujio.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, William Vickrey ranks 49 out of 1,622. Before him are Henry Mintzberg (1939), John Kenneth Galbraith (1908), Mary Pickford (1892), Joni Mitchell (1943), Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (1943), and Paul Anka (1941). After him are Charles Brenton Huggins (1901), Ryan Gosling (1980), Oscar Peterson (1925), Lois Maxwell (1927), Maye Musk (1948), and David Easton (1917).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Canada

Among economists born in Canada, William Vickrey ranks 4. Before him are Robert Mundell (1932), Henry Mintzberg (1939), and John Kenneth Galbraith (1908). After him are Myron Scholes (1941), Harold Innis (1894), David Card (1956), Michel Chossudovsky (1946), and Jacob Viner (1892).

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