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William Vickrey

nobel prize for economics


Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to William Vickrey
Full Name
of the recipient		William Vickrey
AwardSveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Year of Award1996
Share in Award50.0%
Award Shared withJames A. Mirrlees (50.0%)
Motivation
for the Award		for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information
Affiliation
at the Time of Award		Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Place of BirthVictoria, BC, Canada CAN
Date of Birth21 June 1914
Age
at the time of Award		81 years
Place of DeathHarrison, NY, United States USA
Date of Death11 October 1996
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