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.)

“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.

Table of Contents

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