Leonid Hurwicz shares the 2007 Prize in Economic Sciences for laying the foundations of mechanism design. His research considered how institutions and rules can elicit private information and align individual incentives with desired collective outcomes when participants possess different information.
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Leonid Hurwicz
Nobel Prize history for Leonid Hurwicz based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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