William Spencer Vickrey (21 June 1914 – 11 October 1996) was a Canadian-American professor of economics and Nobel Laureate. Vickrey was awarded the 1996...

A Vickrey auction or sealed-bid second-price auction (SBSPA) is a type of sealed-bid auction. Bidders submit written bids without knowing the bid of the...

names. It is a generalization of a Vickrey auction for multiple items. The auction is named after William Vickrey, Edward H. Clarke, and Theodore Groves...

politician Robert Vickrey (1926–2011), American painter William Vickrey (1914–1996), Canadian economist Vickrey auction, type of auction Vickrey–Clarke–Groves...

the foundations of mechanism design theory." The related works of William Vickrey that established the field earned him the 1996 Nobel prize. In an interesting...

William Dawbney Nordhaus (born May 31, 1941) is an American economist. He was a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, best known for his...

philosopher John Rawls, but the thought experiment itself was developed by William Vickrey and John Harsanyi in earlier writings. In the original position, you...

Pasinetti Joan Robinson George Shackle Anthony Thirlwall Fernando Vianello William Vickrey L. Randall Wray Dimitri B. Papadimitriou Sidney Weintraub Disequilibrium...

Reinhard Selten 1995: Robert E. Lucas Jr. 1996: James A. Mirrlees / William Vickrey 1997: Robert C. Merton / Myron S. Scholes 1998: Amartya Sen 1999: Robert...

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics was awarded to James A. Mirrlees and William Vickrey for their "fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives...