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Leonid Hurwicz, 1917-2008



Leonid Hurwicz won the Nobel memorial prize with Eric S. Maskin and Roger Myerson in 2007.

 

  


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Major Works of Leonid Hurwicz

  • "Stochastic Models of Economic Fluctuations", 1944, Econometrica [cwls]
  • "The Theory of Economic Behavior", 1945, AER. [cwls]
  • "Theory of the Firm and of Investment", 1946, Econometrica [cwls]
  • "What Has Happened to the Theory of Games?", AER  [cwls]
  • "Reduction of Constrained Maxima to Saddle-Point Problems" with K.J.Arrow, 1956,  Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Symposium  [cwls]
  • "Gradient Methods for Constrained Maxima", with K.J. Arrow, 1957, Operations Research
  • Studies in Linear and Non-Linear Programming with K.J.Arrow and Hirofumi Uzawa, 1958.
  • "On the Stability of Competitive Equilibrium I", with K.J. Arrow, 1958, Econometrica. [cwls]
  • "On the Stability of Competitive Equilibrium, II", with K.J. Arrow, J.D. Block, 1959, Econometrica. [cwls]
  • "Competitive Stability under Weak Gross Substitutability: the Euclidian distance approach" with K.J. Arrow, 1960, IER.
  • "Some Remarks on the Equilibria of Economic Systems" with K.J. Arrow, 1960, Econometrica.
  • "Conditions for Economic Efficiency of Centralized and Decentralized Structures", 1960, in Grossman, editor, Value and Plan.
  • "Optimality and Informational Efficiency in Resource Allocation", 1960, in Arrow, Karlin and Suppes, editors, Mathematical Methods in Social Sciences.
  • "Constraint Qualifications in Non-Linear Programming", with K.J. Arrow and H. Uzawa, 1961, Naval Research Logistics Quarterly
  • "On the Problem of Integrability of Demand Functions", 1971, in Chipman et al, editors, Preferences, Utility and Demand.
  • "On the Integrability of Demand Functions", with H. Uzawa, 1971, in Chipman et al, editors, Preferences, Utility and Demand.
  • "Revealed Preference without Demand Continuity Assumptions", with M.K. Richter, 1971, in Chipman et al, editors, Preferences, Utility and Demand.
  • "Centralization and Decentralization in Economic Processes", 1971, in Eckstein, editor, Computation of Economic Systems.
  • "On Informationally Decentralized Systems", 1971, in McGuire, and Radner, editors, Decision and Organization.
  • "The Design of Mechanism for Resource Allocation", 1973, AER.
  • Studies in Resource Allocation Processes, with K.J. Arrow, 1977.
  • "On the Dimensional Requirements of Informationally Decentralized Pareto-Satisfactory Processes", 1977, JET.
  • "Ville Axioms and Consumer Theory", with M.K. Richter, 1978, Econometrica
  • "Construction of Outcome Functions guaranteeing Existence and Pareto-optimality of Nash Equilibria", with D. Schmeidler, 1979, Econometrica .
  • "Outcome Functions Yielding Walrasian and Lindahl Allocations at Nash Equilibrium Points", 1979, RES.
  • "On Allocations Attainable through Nash Equilibria", 1979, JET.
  • "Incentive Aspects of Decentralization", 1986, in Arrow and Intriligator, editors, Handbook of Mathematical Econ - Vol. III - intro
  • "On the Stability of the Tatonnement Approach to Competitive Equilibrium", 1986, in Sonnenschein, editor, Models of Economic Dynamics
  • "On the Implementation of Social Choice Rules in Irrational Societies", 1986, in Heller et al., editors,  Essays in Honor of Kenneth J. Arrow, Vol. I
  • "Discrete allocation mechanisms: Dimensional requirements for resource-allocation mechanisms when desired outcomes are unbounded.", with T. Marschak, 1985, J of Complexity 
  • "Approximating a function by choosing a covering of its domain and k points from its range", with T. Marschak, 1988, J of Complexity 
  • "Implementation and Enforcement in Institutional Modeling", 1993, in Barnett et al., editors, Political Economy
  • "Feasible Nash Implementation of Social Choice Rules When the Designer Does not Know Endowment or Production Sets" with E. Maskin and A. Postlewaite, 1995, in Ledyard, editor, Economics of Informational Decentralization
  • "But who will Guard the Guardians?", [pdf, nobel]

 


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