Papers by Professor Leonid Hurwicz

 

Available from the University of Minnesota Economics Research Library; contact wendy@umn.edu. 

 

This is not a complete vitae. 
Published papers available in JSTOR or other electronic sources are generally not listed here. 
Professor Hurwicz’s correspondence and original papers
(published and unpublished) are at
Duke University’s Economists’ Papers Project:
http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/collections/economists/ (unable to view papers online).

 

Arrow, Kenneth J. & Leonid Hurwicz.  Decentralization and computation in resource allocation,Reprint from: Essays in Economics and Econometrics, ed. R. Pfouts, University of North Carolina Press, 1960, 34-104, as Stanford IMSS reprint #20.

 

Arrow, Kenneth J. & Leonid Hurwicz.  Reduction of constrained maxima to saddle-point problems.  Reprint from: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability (held at the Univ. of California, Dec. 1954 & June-July 1955), vol. V, 1-20.

 

Arrow, Kenneth J., Leonid Hurwicz and Hirofumi Uzawa.  Constraint qualifications in maximization problems.  Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 8:2, 1961, 175-91.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  A priori information and specification.  (Class notes for Econometrics II & Economics 102, April 8, 1952.)  Other notes for the same classes attached to these include:  “Choice among probabilistic alternatives,” (February 1, 1952); “Applications of the minimax principle,” (February 4, 1952); “Types of statistical decision problems,” (February 19, 1952); “`Inverse’ probability, Bayesian interpretation of the maximum likelihood point estimation criterion,” (February 28, 1952); “On the consequences of incorrect specification: Applications of the maximum likelihood principle,” (May 19, 1952); and “Minimax-risk inherent in a decision function: efficiency, the corresponding specification concepts,” (May 20, 1952).

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Balanced outcome functions yielding Walrasian and Lindahl allocations at Nash equilibrium points for two or more agents.  September 3, 1977.  12p. + published version from General Equilibrium, Growth, and Trade, Academic Press, 1979, 125-37.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Basic mathematical and statistical considerations in the study of rhythms and near-rhythms.  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 98:4, October 1962, 851-57.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Bertrand approach; Bertrand –type approach to monopolistic comp-etition.  Tunis, May-June 1971.  15p.; 16p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Book review of: The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, by von Neumann and Morgenstern.  Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 19:3, Sept. 1948, 436-37.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid. Bureaucracy as an optimal organizational structure.   For “Formal theory of organization and decision.”  April 27, 1956.  5p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  But who will guard the guardians?  University of Minnesota, May 1998.  16p.   (This was revised to become one of the 2007 Nobel Lectures, which was published in American Economic Review, 98:3, June, 2008, 577-85.)

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Centralization and Decentralization in Economic Processes, Paper, November 1968.  26p. + Reprint from: Comparison of Economic Systems (Chapter 3), University of California Press, 1971, 79-102; + Reprint from: Jahrbuch der Wirtschaft Ostereuropas, Band 3, 1972, 87-113.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Comment on “Some issues in the transformation of ownership institutions in Poland,” by Maciej Iwanek, reprint from: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 148:1, March1992, 66-68.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Compatibility of economic systems with individual incentives, UCLA,February, 23, 1975.  4p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Conditions for economic efficiency of centralized and decentralized structures.  June 1958.  Center for Slavic Studies and Department of Economics, University of California Berkeley; Symposium on “Economic Calculation and Organization in Eastern Europe,” June 16-18. 1958.  19p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Decentralization, incentive structures and incomplete information, April, 1980; corrected and expanded, February, 1981, 21p. + June, 1982 version, 33p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Decentralized resource allocation mechanisms.  October 16, 1955.  8p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  The derivation of a transversal yielding the “customary” Walrasian mechanism.  Feb. 10, 1986.  5p. Part of another publication sections labeled “HRS” (Hurwicz, Reiter, Saari, most likely).

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  The design of mechanisms for resource allocation, Reprint from: American Economic Review, 63:2, May 1973, 1-30 (Richard T. Ely Lecture) and Reprint from: Frontiers of Quantitative Economics, v. II, (Ch. 1), North-Holland, 1974, 3-42.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Dimensional requirements: an example.  August 8, 1972, Stanford.  6p.+ 7p. hand-written version.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Economic and social aspects of weather modification.  n.d.  8p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Economic impact of ISPAs; comments for the Univ. of Pennsylvania Conference on International Scientific and Professional Associations and the International System, Philadelphia, Nov 12-13, 1976.  7p

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Economic issues in the utilization of knowledge.  January 7, 1982. 23p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Effects of entry on profits under monopolistic competition.   Proof for Chapter 9 of: The economics of imperfect competition and employment: Joan Robinson and beyond, New York University Press, 1989, 305-64.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Environment and resource problems: a challenge for economics.  “Presented at Przesieka, Sept. 26, 1989.  This version Dec. 6, 1989.  2p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Foundations of economics.  Minneapolis, May 23, 1987.  2p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Game theory and decisions.  Scientific American, 192:2, February 1965, 78-83.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.   Harold Hotelling as an economist (outline).  August 27, 1975.  10p.

(“Atlanta (ASA,IMS)”)

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Implementation with unknown endowments in a two-trader pure exchange economy.  Advances in Mathematical Economics, 8, 2006, 257-71.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Incentive aspects of decentralization.  Handbook of mathematical economics, Volume III, (Chapter 28), 1986.   41p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Incentive compatibility: a counterexample.  April 4, 1974.  2p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Incentive-compatibility and Pareto optimality: comments inspired by the seminar discussion.  Stanford, August 4, 1975.  4p. (“This note is devoted to two issues brought up during the seminar discussion of my paper on the non-optimality of manipul-ative equilibria.”)

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Incentive-compatibility: public goods, n=3.  October 3, 1974.  7p.+ notes.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Incentives and efficiency in socialist economies.  Dallas, December 1975.  10p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Incentives in resource allocation systems with public goods.  Boulder, July 9, 1975.  14p. + part 2 entitled “outcome functions.” Misc. paging.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Institutional change and the theory of mechanism design.  Academia Economic Papers, 22:2, September 1994, 1-27.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Institutions as families of game forms.  The Japanese Economic Review, 47:2, June 1996, 113-32.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  The interrelationship between man-made and natural environments.  Boulder, 1980.  4p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Manipulative Nash equilibria: Theorem 1, Berkeley June 7-8, 1977, corrected June 20, 1979.  36p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Maximality (“efficiency”) and Lagrangian saddle points.  March 12, 1953.  6p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Mechanisms and institutions.  University of Minnesota, September 1987, revised February 1988.  27p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Monopolistic competition.  Preliminary uncorrected version, June 15, 1971.  64p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  A note on Kuhn-Tucker.  October, 1966. 6p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  A note on non-separability and dimentionsl requirements for the message space.  Stanford, August 8, 1972; this version Feb. 14, 1978.  11p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Notes on relations.  (Class notes for Economics 100.)  November 1951.  24p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On a generalized Bayesian-minimax approach to statistical estimation.

University of Minnesota, November 1988.  97p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On allocations attainable through Nash-equilibria. January 1974, revised August 1978.  32p. + addition: “Economies with Public Goods,” April, 1977.4p.+ Reprint from: JET, 21:1, August 1979, 140-65; + Reprint from: Aggregation and revelation of preferences, (Chapter 22), 1979, 397-431.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On decentralizability in the presence of externalities.   San Francisco, December 1966. 7p. + notes + abstract. 

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On dimensional requirements for resource allocation mechanisms in discrete message spaces.  July 1982.  (may be co-authored w/ T. Marschak).  Misc. paging.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On entry under product differentiation.  April 1971.  15p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On imperfect markets with free entry.  January 1979.  8p. + notes

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On incentive problems in the design of non-wasteful resource allocation systems.  Studies in Economic theory and Practice, (Chapter 8) ed. by J. Los, et al, North-Holland, 1981, 93-106. (earlier version of paper below presented at World Congress, 1975)

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On informational decentralization and efficiency in resource allocation mechanisms.  University of Minnesota, January 15, 1985; revised Sept. 9, 1985.  128p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On informational requirements for non-wasteful resource allocation systems.  University of Minnesota, April 1976 & NBER paper from “Mathematical Models in Economics: Papers and Proceedings of US-USSR Seminar, Moscow, 1976.  60p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On informationally decentralized systems.  Decision and organization: a volume in honor of Jacob Marschak, (Chapter 14), 2^nd edition, 1986, 297-336.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On the concept and possibility of informational decentralization.  December 1968.  19p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On the dimensional requirements of informationally decentralized Pareto-satisfactory processes.  February, 1972.  13p.; April 1975 & June 1976.  25p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On the existence of allocation systems whose manipulative Nash equilibria are Pareto-optimal: the case of one public good and one private good.  August 23, 1975.  5p. (presented at World Congress-Econometric Society meetings, Toronto).

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On the existence of competitive equilibria.  December 2, 1966, corrected July 2, 1970.  10p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On the existence of incentive-compatible allocation systems.  University of Minnesota, August 18, 1973 + revised version, October 12, 1973.  26p. + “On inventive compatibility: a correction,” April 1974.  3p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On the implementation of social choice rules in irrational societies. July 23, 1985. 26p. + corrected version, October 31, 1985.  38p. + reprint from Social choice and public decision making: essays in honor of Kenneth J. Arrow, vol. 1, 1986, 75-96.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On the informational requirements for informationally decentralized Pareto-satisfactory procedures.  August 1975.  2p. + Russian translation.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On the interaction between information and incentives in organizations.  University of Minnesota, n.d.  49p. + published version: Communication and control in society, 1979, 123-47.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On the optimality of Nash equilibria in a pure exchange (Edgeworth Box) economy.  November 7, 1974.  6p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On the stability of the tatonnement approach to competitive equilibrium.  February 2, 1984.  5p. 

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  On the structural form of interdependent systems.  Stanford, August 1960.  13p. + Reprint from: Logic, methodology and philosophy of science; proceedings of the 1960 International Congress, 1962, 232-39.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Optimal allocation of resources in economies with public goods.  January 6, 1983.  27p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Optimality of Nash equilibria-public goods.  December 1974.  4p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Organizational structures for joint decision making: a designer’s point of view.  Reprint from: Interorganizational decision making, Aldine, 1972, 37-44.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Outcome functions yielding Walrasian and Lindahl allocations at Nash equilibrium points.  August 1978.  18p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Pareto optimality of the (“manipulative”) Nash equilibria for prescribed adjustment rules.  Berkeley, April 1977.  14p. + Minneapolis, August 8, 1978 version (same, but with an additional cover page: “This is a working paper containing some of the results (without proofs) concerning the manipulative Nash equilibria.)

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Perspectives on economics.  New Orleans, February 1976.  24p. (“preliminary version”).

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Profiles as canonical strategy domains for Nash implementability.  University of Minnesota, April 1982.  7p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Quadratic utility Walrasian performance example.  Aix-en-Provence, August 1980, corrected May 1981.  14p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Revisiting externalities.  Journal of Public Economic Theory, 1:2, 1999, 225-45.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Self-relevance.  June 1971.  6p. + 6p. of notes.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Socialism and incentives: developing a framework.  November 9, 1978. 16p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Some implications of electronic thinking organisms.  Current Economic Comment, 12:2, May 1950, 3-6.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Some notation and definitions.  Copenhagen, July 1963.  6p. (This may be part of “Decentralization in a team with externalities;” in a folder marked w/ that title)

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Statistical aspects of weather modification.  November 1965.  18p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.   Statistical models with disturbances in equations and/or disturbances in variables (parts I: Introduction & III: Lagged systems).  {See T.W. Anderson, above, for parts II and IV} June 1946.  25p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  Toward a framework for analyzing institutions and institutional change.  June 1990.  28p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  A voting system reform proposal to provide for minority repre-sentation.  April 1969.  4p. (presented to: DFL Constitutional Reform Committee-{also known as the “walking subcaucus”}.)

 

Hurwicz, Leonid.  What is the Coase Theorem?  Japan and the World Economy, 7, 1995, 49-74.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid & Martin Abel.  Policies and principles underlying the economic decision making in public enterprise, September 1973. 13p.(University of Minnesota grant proposal)

 

Hurwicz, Leonid, James Jordan & Yakkar Kannai.  On the demand generated by a smooth and concavifiable preference ordering.  Journal of Mathematical Economics, 16, 1987, 169-89.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid & Mukul Majumdar.  Notes on sensitivity and decentralization in infinite horizon models.  April 1984, revised May 1984.  10p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid & Mukul Majumdar.  Optimal Intertemporal allocation mechanisms and decentralization of decisions.  Journal of Economic Theory, 45:2, August 1988, 228-61.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid & Thomas Marschak.  Approximating a function by choosing a covering of its domain and k points from its range.  Journal of Complexity, 4, 1988, 137-74.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid & Thomas Marschak.  Discrete allocation mechanisms: dimensional requirements for resource-allocation mechanisms when desired outcomes are unbounded.  Journal of Complexity, 1, 1985, 264-303.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid, Stanley Reiter & Donald Saari.  On constructing an informationally decentralized process implementing a given performance function.  Boulder, July 16, 1980.  (“Part 1 of the present note provides a summary (without proofs) of some of the results from the ongoing work by the authors on constructing mechanisms with message spaces of minimal dimension for smooth performance functions,” referring to paper below).  41p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid, Stanley Reiter & Donald Saari.  On constructing mechanisms with message spaces of minimal dimension for smooth performance functions.  July 1978.  70p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid & Marcel K. Richter.  Implicit functions and diffeomorphisms without C¹.  Advances in Mathematical Economics, 5, 2003, 65-96.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid & Marcel K. Richter.   Optimization and Lagrange multipliers: non-C¹ constraints and “minimal” constraint qualifications.  Advances in Mathematical Economics, 5, 2003, 97-151.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid & Hirofumi Uzawa.  Convexity of asymptotic average production possible sets.  n.d.  19p.

 

Hurwicz, Leonid & Hirofumi Uzawa.  Integrability of demand functions.  December 1963.   Econometric Society Meetings-Boston.  6p. + notes + 4p. comment.