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William Vickrey

1914 - 1996

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William Spencer Vickrey (21 June 1914 – 11 October 1996) was a Canadian-American professor of economics and Nobel Laureate. He was a lifelong faculty member at Columbia University. A theorist who worked on public economics and mechanism design, Vickrey primarily discussed public policy problems. He originated the Vickrey auction, introduced the concept of congestion pricing in networks, formalized arguments for marginal cost pricing, and contributed to optimal income taxation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Vickrey is the 62nd most popular economist (up from 89th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Canada (up from 49th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, William Vickrey ranks 62 out of 414. Before him are Jeffrey Sachs, Werner Sombart, Theodore Schultz, Frédéric Bastiat, Reinhard Selten, and Douglass North. After him are Lionel Robbins, Wang Anshi, Bernard Mandeville, Franco Modigliani, Lawrence Klein, and Kenneth Arrow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, William Vickrey ranks 33. Before him are Abd al-Karim Qasim, Joe DiMaggio, Joe Louis, Max Perutz, Aribert Heim, and Demetrios I of Constantinople. After him are Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, Arthur Kennedy, Boris Christoff, Philippe Ariès, Gino Bartali, and Vincent J. McMahon. Among people deceased in 1996, William Vickrey ranks 29. Before him are Paul Erdős, René Lacoste, Sergiu Celibidache, Adolf Galland, Odysseas Elytis, and Magda Schneider. After him are René Clément, Artur Axmann, Solomon Asch, Ademir de Menezes, Abdus Salam, and Claudette Colbert.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, William Vickrey ranks 40 out of 1,622. Before him are Neil Young (1945), Sidney Altman (1939), Willard Boyle (1924), Henry Taube (1915), Paul Anka (1941), and William Shatner (1931). After him are James Naismith (1861), Jim Peebles (1935), Henry Clinton (1730), John Sparrow David Thompson (1845), Arthur B. McDonald (1943), and Robert Mundell (1932).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Canada

Among economists born in Canada, William Vickrey ranks 1. After him are Robert Mundell (1932), Henry Mintzberg (1939), John Kenneth Galbraith (1908), Myron Scholes (1941), David Card (1956), Harold Innis (1894), Jacob Viner (1892), and Michel Chossudovsky (1946).

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