Economist Leonid Hurwicz

Leonid Hurwicz

Living place: Russia

Birthday: 21-8-1917

Global rank: #71552

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Economist Leonid Hurwicz profile

Who is Economist Leonid Hurwicz?
The winners of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics for shedding light on how individuals and organizations interact give rise to unequal knowledge.
He has written extensively on game theory and how it is applied to economics, arguing that people can be motivated with the right incentives to achieve the right results.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He was studying law at the University of Warsaw in Poland when he took his first economics course, and turned to pursue himself, going to the London School of Economics.

Family life info

He was born into a Jewish family in Moscow, Russia that fled shortly after arriving in Poland, where they were again persecuted and forced to flee after Hitler's invasion.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Economist Leonid Hurwicz?
Robert Engle is a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, also helping advance research into how people buy and sell.

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When was Economist Leonid Hurwicz born?
Leonid Hurwicz was born in 21-8-1917, death year is , at the age of 107.
Where is Economist Leonid Hurwicz's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Leonid Hurwicz was born in Russia. is a Economist, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Snake. Leonid Hurwicz's global rank is 71552 and whose rank is 17 in list of famous Economist.
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Events in 1917 and 21-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Leonid Hurwicz

  • First U.S. combat troops arrive in France as U.S. declares war on Germany (April 6). Background: World War I
  • Third Battle of Ypres is fought. Background: World War I
  • World-wide influenza pandemic strikes; by 1920, nearly 20 million are dead. In U.S. alone, 500,000 perish. Background: Major U.S. Epidemics
  • Dutch dancer Mata Hari is convicted and executed as a German spy.
  • Government offices are seized and the Romanov's Winter Palace is stormed in Russian October Revolution.

Birthday Leonid Hurwicz (21-8) in history

  • Day 21-8 year 1680: The Pueblo Indians drove out the Spaniards and took possession of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  • Day 21-8 year 1831: Preacher Nat Turner led a slave revolt in Virginia.
  • Day 21-8 year 1858: The famous debates between Senator Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln began in Illinois.
  • Day 21-8 year 1911: The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre museum in France by an Italian waiter, Vicenzo Perruggia.
  • Day 21-8 year 1940: Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City.
  • Day 21-8 year 1945: Harry S. Truman announced the end of the Lend-Lease Program.
  • Day 21-8 year 1959: Hawaii became the 50th state in the United States.
  • Day 21-8 year 1983: Corazon Aquino's husband Benigno, who was Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos's chief political opponent, was assassinated.
  • Day 21-8 year 1991: Latvia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
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