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William Spencer Vickrey (* 21. Juni 1914 in Victoria, British Columbia; † 11. Oktober 1996 in Harrison, New York) war ein Ökonom und Universitätsprofessor in den Vereinigten Staaten. Im Jahr 1996 erhielt er gemeinsam mit James Mirrlees den Alfred-Nobel-Gedächtnispreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften für seine Beiträge zur ...
William Spencer Vickrey (21 June 1914 – 11 October 1996) was a Canadian-American professor of economics and Nobel Laureate. Vickrey was awarded the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Mirrlees for their research into the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information , becoming the only Nobel ...
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He became a full professor in 1958 and was named McVickar Professor of Political Economy in 1971. He was chairman of the Department of Economics from 1964 to 1967 and retired as McVickar Professor Emeritus in 1982. A long career of research covered a large range of subjects.
William Vickrey was a Canadian-born American economist who brought innovative analysis to the problems of incomplete, or asymmetrical, information. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for Economics with British economist James A. Mirrlees. Vickrey’s family moved from Canada to New York when he was three.
1. Dez. 1996 · Die Königlich Schwedische Akademie der Wissenschaften ehrte den Briten James Mirrlees und den Kanadier William Vickrey für ihre Beiträge zur Informationsökonomik. Die beiden Wissenschaftler fanden Lösungen für Schwierigkeiten, die sich aus ungleichen Vorkenntnissen der an einer wirtschaftlichen Transaktion Beteiligten ergeben ...
Vickrey was not a one-idea man. Throughout his almost 60 years at Columbia, he was admired for finding elegant, intricate ways of solving practical problems, though he was not well known outside his field before his Nobel at the age of 82. Vickrey founded the field of auction theory in 1961.
William S. Vickrey. W illiam Vickrey and james mirrlees shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in economics “for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information .”. One of the most important economic principles is that incentives affect people’s behavior.
