{"product_id":"leonid-hurwicz-intelligent-designer-how-war-and-the-great-depression-inspired-a-nobel-economist-9798887191348","title":"Leonid Hurwicz: Intelligent Designer: How War and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A fascinating, exciting story.” \u003cbr\u003e— Sylvia Nasar, author of \u003ci\u003eA Beautiful Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fascinating, exciting story.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Sylvia Nasar, author of\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Beautiful Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Before he became an economist, Leo Hurwicz led a dramatic life worthy of a Hollywood movie. Michael Hurwicz tells this story with verve, and also succeeds in explaining to a lay readership the deep contributions his father made to economic science. Terrific reading.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Eric Maskin, Nobel laureate in Economics, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kudos to Michael Hurwicz, who has written a paean to his late father, Leo Hurwicz, an extraordinary economist, teacher, polymath, and polyglot, whose genial personality and sense of humor endeared him to many in the profession. Especially for those of us who primarily knew Leo in an academic context, this book provides the background story of his life and times. It is meticulously researched and well-written.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Samiran Banerjee, Teaching Professor of Economics at Emory University and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Papers of Leonid Hurwicz: Volume 1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Michael Hurwicz gives us a unique attempt to clarify, for all those who knew Leo Hurwicz, the complex history of his family. Many of us who knew Leo had only a fragmentary understanding of this story. Michael tells it with loving care. He then proceeds to interweave ideas from Leo's work and to show, with tenderness, aspects of Leo as a father. A remarkable achievement.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Thomas Marschak, University of California, Berkeley, CA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hurwicz tells the story of a remarkable man. A man, who received a Nobel Prize in Economics at age 90, who was married to the same woman, Evelyn, from age 27 until his death, who was the father of four children, who was an excellent pianist with a repertoire that reached from Beethoven to folk songs, an inspired — and inspiring — teller of bed-time stories, a life-long learner and knower of, almost, everything, an active citizen, and, yes, did I mention the Nobel Prize in Economics at age 90?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Leo Hurwicz achieved all of this in spite of — or should we say, because of — the times of existential peril through which he and his extended family lived. … It is a context of revolutions, wars, antisemitism, persecution, and genocide. But it is also a context of resistance, persistence, ingenuity, courage, and creativity, of humanity in the face of barbarism.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Jens Kruse, \u003ci\u003eThe Orcasonian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003e1939, sierpień\/août\/August\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn a Refugee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow or Never\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eHome Safe?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eGet an Education!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Miracle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eHurwicz Home School\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrisis, Coup, Catastrophe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eAstrophysics, Chopin and Jazz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eEconomics and Einstein\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocialist Calculation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrown Shirts and Ghetto Benches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraduation Getaway\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eMath, Models and Mechanisms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eGovernment Intervention\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Lifeline\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eHurwiczes on the Run\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Intellectual Warrior at the School for Peace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeo Hurwicz: “Excess Foreign Population”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneva to Chicago by Way of Locarno, Barcelona and Lisbon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eChicago and MIT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurprise Attack\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Little Bit Unruly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Great Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Slow and Difficult Process\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust a Closer Walk with Stan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlood, Fire, Smoke, Exile and Human Kindness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eMechanism Design: Development and Recognition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix A. Leo’s Memorial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix B. A Celebration of Leo's 90th Birthday, Held at the Holiday Inn Metrodome, 1500 Washington Avenue South, in Minneapolis on April 14, 2007\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix C. The Theory of Economic Behavior, by Leonid Hurwicz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix D. The Hurwicz Criterion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix E. Edited transcript of 2007 interview with Leo, conducted by the author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix F. A Timeline of the Life of Leo Hurwicz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix G. 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