Hurwicz, Leonid

  1. Hurwicz, Leonid
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1917 Aug. 21 Born in Moscow to Polish Jewish parents 1919 Family flees back to Warsaw 1938 After studying the piano, economics, and physics, graduated with a law degree from the University of Warsaw 1938 Began study of economics at London School of Economics 1939 Took refuge in Geneva and emigrated to the U.S. a year later 1944 1946 Research Associate at the Cowles Commission in Chicago, working chiefly on econometrics, a new field of study 1945 Published The Theory of Economic Behavior,American Economic Review, Vol. 35, No. 5, reprinted many times, most recently in 2004 1946 1949 Professor of Economics at Iowa State 1949 1951 Professor of Economics, Maths and Statistics, University of Illinois 1951 1999 Professor of economics and mathematics in the School of Business Administration at the University of Minnesota. 1958 Publication of Studies in Linear and Non-Linear Programming, edited by Kenneth J. Arrow, Leonid Hurwicz, and Hirofumi Uzawa, Stanford University Press 1961 Became chair of the University’s statistics department 1971 Publication of Preferences, Utility,and Demand, edited by John S. Chipman, Leonid Hurwicz, Marcel K. Richter, and H. Sonnenschein, Harcourt Brace Jovanovic 1977 Published Studies in Resource Allocation Processes, edited by Kenneth J. Arrow and Leonid Hurwicz, Cambridge University Press 1990 Awarded the National Medal of Science by President Bush 2006 Published Designing Economic Mechanisms, with Stanley Reiter, Cambridge University Press 2007 Oldest individual to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, shared with Eric S. Maskin of Princeton University and Roger B. Myerson of the University of Chicago for mechanism-design theory 2008 June 26 Died at the age of 90 in Minneapolis

From the guide to the Leonid Hurwicz Papers, 1930-2008 and undated, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)
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