WILLIAM VICKREY (1914 - 1996)
Prêmio Nobel 1996
Economista norte-americano e professor da Columbia University de New York, William Vickrey obteve o Prêmio Nobel de economia em 1996, compartilhado com James A. Mirrlees, por suas contribuições fundamentais à teoria econômica dos incentivos com informação assimétrica. Morreu três dias depois de ser informado que receberia o Nobel.
Nasceu em Victoria, British Columbia (Canadá). Estudou nas Universidades de Yale e Columbia, onde obteve o doutorado em 1947, com uma tese de 496 páginas intitulada "Agenda for Progressive Taxation". Desde então trabalhou na Columbia University.
Obras de William Vickrey
"Averaging of Income for Income Tax Purposes", 1939, JPE
"Measuring Marginal Utility by Reactions to Risk", 1945, Econometrica
An Agenda for Progessive Taxation, 1947.
"The Limitations of Keynesian Economics", 1948, Social Research
"Stability Through Inflation", 1954, in Kurihara, editor, Post Keynesian Economics
"A Proposal for Revising New York’s Subway Fare System", 1955, Journal of The Operations Research Society of America
"Utility, Strategy, and Social Decision Rules", 1960, QJE
"Counterspeculation, Auctions, and Competitive Sealed Tenders", 1961, Journal of Finance
"Auction and Bidding Games", 1962, in Recent Advances in Game Theory
"The Problem of Progression", 1968, University of Florida Law Review
"Congestion Theory and Transport Investment", 1969, AER
Public Economics: Selected Papers
"Fifteen Fatal Fallacies of Financial Fundamentalism A Disquisition on Demand Side Economics", 1998, Proceedings of the NAS. (versión PDF )