— Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind
While still in his early 20s, and under Hitler's shadow, Leonid “Leo” Hurwicz (1917-2008) left his home in Warsaw, Poland, seeking safety and a degree at the London School of Economics. The following years, while challenging and potentially life-threatening, contained the seeds of a lifelong intellectual adventure. Leo's story is personal (born a refugee, precarious war years for himself and his Polish-Jewish family, a new life in America), global (revolutions, wars, depressions), ideological (socialism, capitalism, economic planning, free markets) and professional (a sixty-year career as a professor of economics leading ultimately to a Nobel Prize). This book tells his story.
— Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind
While still in his early 20s, and under Hitler's shadow, Leonid “Leo” Hurwicz (1917-2008) left his home in Warsaw, Poland, seeking safety and a degree at the London School of Economics. The following years, while challenging and potentially life-threatening, contained the seeds of a lifelong intellectual adventure. Leo's story is personal (born a refugee, precarious war years for himself and his Polish-Jewish family, a new life in America), global (revolutions, wars, depressions), ideological (socialism, capitalism, economic planning, free markets) and professional (a sixty-year career as a professor of economics leading ultimately to a Nobel Prize). This book tells his story.
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Leonid Hurwicz: Intelligent Designer: How War and the Great Depression Inspired a Nobel Economist
238Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9798887191348 |
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Publisher: | Academic Studies Press |
Publication date: | 05/09/2023 |
Series: | Jews of Poland |
Pages: | 238 |
Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d) |