• William Spencer Vickrey (21 June 1914 – 11 October 1996) was a Canadian-American professor of economics and Nobel Laureate. He was a lifelong faculty...
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    A Vickrey auction or sealed-bid second-price auction (SBSPA) is a type of sealed-bid auction. Bidders submit written bids without knowing the bid of the...
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    names. It is a generalization of a Vickrey auction for multiple items. The auction is named after William Vickrey, Edward H. Clarke, and Theodore Groves...
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  • politician Robert Vickrey (1926–2011), American painter William Vickrey (1914–1996), Canadian economist Vickrey auction, type of auction Vickrey–Clarke–Groves...
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  • size of the debt per se. According to economist and Nobel laureate William Vickrey, This fallacy seems to stem from a false analogy to borrowing by individuals...
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  • Pasinetti Joan Robinson George Shackle Anthony Thirlwall Fernando Vianello William Vickrey L. Randall Wray Dimitri B. Papadimitriou Sidney Weintraub Disequilibrium...
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    the foundations of mechanism design theory." The related works of William Vickrey that established the field earned him the 1996 Nobel prize. One person...
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    William Dawbney Nordhaus (born May 31, 1941) is an American economist. He was a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, best known for his...
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    philosopher John Rawls, but the thought experiment itself was developed by William Vickrey and John Harsanyi in earlier writings. In the original position, one...
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    Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics was awarded to James A. Mirrlees and William Vickrey for their "fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives...
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