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William Vickrey, 1914-1996.

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Canadian economist at Columbia, pioneer of auction theory.

Vickrey shared the Nobel prize in 1996 with James Mirrlees "for fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information." 

 

  


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Major Works of William Vickrey

  • "Averaging of Income for Income Tax Purposes", 1939, JPE
  • "Measuring Marginal Utility by Reactions to Risk", 1945, Econometrica
  • An Agenda for Progressive Taxation, 1947.
  • "The Limitations of Keynesian Economics", 1948, Social Research
  • "Stability Through Inflation", 1954, in Kurihara, editor, Post Keynesian Economics
  • "A Proposal for Revising New York’s Subway Fare System", 1955, Journal of The Operations Research Society of America
  • "Utility, Strategy, and Social Decision Rules", 1960, QJE
  • "Counterspeculation, Auctions, and Competitive Sealed Tenders", 1961, Journal of Finance [pdf]
  • "Auction and Bidding Games", 1962, in Recent Advances in Game Theory
  • "Pricing in Urban and Suburban Transport", 1963, AER.
  • "The Problem of Progression", 1968, University of Florida Law Review
  • "Congestion Theory and Transport Investment", 1969, AER
  • Public Economics: Selected Papers
  • "Principles of Efficient Congestion Pricing", 1992 [clb]
  • "Today's Task for Economists", 1993, AER.
  • "Procuring Universal Service: Putting Auction Theory to Work", 1996 [nobel]
  • "Fifteen Fatal Fallacies of Financial Fundamentalism A Disquisition on Demand Side Economics", 1998, Proceedings of the NAS. [pnas: html, pdf; columbia]
     

 


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Resources on William Vickrey

  • Vickrey memorial page at Columbia
  • 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize  (Nobel.org): press release, advanced, facts, biography, lecture
  • "Procuring Universal Service: Putting Auction Theory to Work", by Paul Milgrom, 1996 [nobel]
  • "William Vickrey: A Pioneer in the Economics of Incentives" by J.J. Laffont, 1996 [nobel]
  • "William S. Vickrey, 1914-1996: Biographical Memoir" by Jacques Drèze, 1998, at NAS [pdf]
  • "William Vickrey: Contributions to Public Policy" by Richard Arnott, 1997 [pdf]
  • "Asymmetric Information and Public Economics: the Mirrlees-Vickrey Nobel Prize" by Agnar Sandmo 1999, JEP [aea, pdf]
  • "William Vickrey's Legacy: innovative policies for social concerns" by David Colander, Ric Holt, D.A. Kennett,  J. Barkley Rosser, 1998, EEJ [eea, pdf]
  • "The Macroeconomics of William Vickrey" by Timothy Canova, 1997, Challenge
  • "The Lovely but Lonely Vickrey Auction" by L.M. Ausubel and Paul Milgrom [pdf]
  • Vickrey papers at ideas/repec
  • Vickrey obituary in NY Times, 1996
  • Article on Vickrey and transportation pricing in Daily News, 1996 [pdf]
  • "Remembering William Vickrey" by Dick Netzer, 1996, Land Lines [online]
  • "Warm memories of William Vickrey" by Mason Gaffney [online]
  • "William Vickrey" at Econ Journ Watch [pdf]
  • Vickrey page at NNDB
  • Vickrey page at Nobel Internet Archive
  • Vickrey entry in Concise Encycl of Economics, Liberty Fund
  • Vickrey entry at Britannica
  • Wikipedia

 

 
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