Leonid Hurwicz: Intelligent Designer (eBook)

How War and the Great Depression Inspired a Nobel Economist

Michael Hurwicz (Autor)

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2023
238 Seiten
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
979-8-88719-135-5 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;A fascinating, exciting story."e; - Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful MindWhile still in his early 20s, and under Hitler's shadow, Leonid "e;Leo"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.5.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Jews of Poland
• Reihe/Serie: Jews of Poland
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: mechanism design, Nobel Prize, economics, history of economics, game theory, World War I, World War II, Holocaust, Polish Americans, Jewish Americans
• ISBN-13: 979-8-88719-135-5 / 9798887191355