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Leonid Hurwicz

nobel prize for economics


Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to Leonid Hurwicz
Full Name
of the recipient		Leonid Hurwicz
AwardSveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Year of Award2007
Share in Award33.3%
Award Shared withEric S. Maskin (33.3%)
Roger B. Myerson (33.3%)
Motivation
for the Award		for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory
Affiliation
at the Time of Award		University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Place of BirthMoscow, Russia RUS
Date of Birth21 August 1917
Age
at the time of Award		89 years
Place of DeathMinneapolis, MN, United States USA
Date of Death24 June 2008
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