Leonid Hurwicz: Intelligent Designer : H

Name: Leonid Hurwicz: Intelligent Designer : H
Brand: Academic Studies Press

Academic Studies Press

Leonid Hurwicz: Intelligent DesignerHow War and the Great Depression Inspired a Nobel Economist\nAuthor(s): Michael Hurwicz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Academic Studies Press, United States\nImprint: Academic Studies Press\nISBN-13: 9798887191331, 979-8887191331\nSynopsis\nA fascinating, exciting story.\n Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind\n\nWhile still in his early 20s, and under Hitler's shadow, Leonid Leo Hurwicz [tel] 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 Pr.