William Vickrey

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William Spencer Vickrey (; 21 June 1914 – 11 October 1996) was a Canadian-American economist. He was a lifelong faculty member at Columbia University. A theorist who worked on public economics and mechanism design, Vickrey primarily discussed public policy problems.

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