Leonid Hurwicz: Intelligent Designer : : How War and the Great Depression Inspired a Nobel Economist / / Michael Hurwicz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Hurwicz, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Jews of Poland
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Prologue --; CHAPTER 1 1939, sierpień/août/August --; CHAPTER 2 Born a Refugee --; CHAPTER 3 Now or Never --; CHAPTER 4 Home Safe? --; CHAPTER 5 Get an Education! --; CHAPTER 6 The Miracle --; CHAPTER 7 Hurwicz Home School --; CHAPTER 8 Crisis, Coup, Catastrophe --; CHAPTER 9 Astrophysics, Chopin and Jazz --; CHAPTER 10 Economics and Einstein --; CHAPTER 11 Socialist Calculation --; CHAPTER 12 Brown Shirts and Ghetto Benches --; CHAPTER 13 Graduation Getaway --; CHAPTER 14 Math, Models and Mechanisms --; CHAPTER 15 Government Intervention --; CHAPTER 16 A Lifeline --; CHAPTER 17 Hurwiczes on the Run --; CHAPTER 18 An Intellectual Warrior at the School for Peace --; CHAPTER 19 Leo Hurwicz: “Excess Foreign Population” --; CHAPTER 20 Geneva to Chicago by Way of Locarno, Barcelona and Lisbon --; CHAPTER 21 Chicago and MIT --; CHAPTER 22 Surprise Attack --; CHAPTER 23 Honey --; CHAPTER 24 A Little Bit Unruly --; CHAPTER 25 The Great Book Review --; CHAPTER 26 A Slow and Difficult Process --; CHAPTER 27 Just a Closer Walk with Stan --; CHAPTER 28 Blood, Fire, Smoke, Exile and Human Kindness --; CHAPTER 29 Mechanism Design: Development and Recognition --; Epilogue --; APPENDIX A Leo’s Memorial --; APPENDIX B A Celebration of Leo’s 90th Birthday, Held at the Holiday Inn Metrodome, 1500 Washington Avenue South, in Minneapolis on April 14, 2007 --; APPENDIX C The Theory of Economic Behavior, by Leonid Hurwicz --; APPENDIX D The Hurwicz Criterion --; APPENDIX E Edited Transcript of 2007 Interview with Leo, Conducted by the Author --; APPENDIX F A Timeline of the Life of Leo Hurwicz --; APPENDIX G What Is Mechanism Design? --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9798887191355; 9783111023540; 9783111178042
• DOI: 10.1515/9798887191355
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Michael Hurwicz.

“A fascinating, exciting story.” — Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful MindWhile still in his early 20s, and under Hitler's shadow, Leonid “Leo” Hurwicz (1917-2008) left his home in Warsaw, Poland, seeking safety and a degree at the London School of Economics. The following years, while challenging and potentially life-threatening, contained the seeds of a lifelong intellectual adventure. Leo's story is personal (born a refugee, precarious war years for himself and his Polish-Jewish family, a new life in America), global (revolutions, wars, depressions), ideological (socialism, capitalism, economic planning, free markets) and professional (a sixty-year career as a professor of economics leading ultimately to a Nobel Prize). This book tells his story.