William Spencer Vickrey

GPTKB entity

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gptkb:person
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gptkb:Yale_University
gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
gptkbp:awardYear 1996
gptkbp:birthDate 1914-06-21
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Victoria,_British_Columbia,_Canada
gptkbp:causeOfDeath heart attack
gptkbp:citizenship gptkb:Canada
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:deathDate 1996-10-11
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Harrison,_New_York,_USA
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Harold_Hotelling
gptkbp:doctoralStudent gptkb:James_Mirrlees
gptkbp:employer gptkb:Columbia_University
gptkbp:field economics
game theory
auction theory
public economics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label William Spencer Vickrey
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:government
auction theory
mechanism design
transport economics
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Harold_Hotelling
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Vickrey_auction
congestion pricing
marginal cost pricing
tax theory
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkb:Canadian
gptkbp:NobelPrizeMotivation for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information
gptkbp:NobelPrizeSharedWith gptkb:James_Mirrlees
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Counterspeculation,_Auctions,_and_Competitive_Sealed_Tenders_(1961)
gptkb:Fifteen_Fatal_Fallacies_of_Financial_Fundamentalism_(1996)
gptkb:Measuring_Marginal_Utility_by_Reactions_to_Risk_(1945)
gptkb:Public_Utility_Pricing_(1948)
gptkb:Some_Objections_to_Marginal_Cost_Pricing_(1948)
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:economist
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Quaker
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Cecile_Thompson
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Vickrey,_William
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5