Inventory of the Leonid Hurwicz Papers, 1930-2008 and undated
Regents’ Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Minnesota and recipient of the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for his work in mechanism design.
The Leonid Hurwicz Papers span the years 1930-2008, covering his entire career as an economist in the United States, from his early work at MIT, the University of Chicago and the Cowles Commission until his death as an Emeritus Professor at the University of Minnesota. The collection is arranged in the following series: Correspondence, Electronic Files, Personal Files, Printed Material, Professional Services Series, Research and Writings, and Teaching Material. Though there are correspondence, legal, financial, and other papers documenting his migration to the United States, there have been no items discovered that document his training as an economist at the University of Warsaw or at the London School of Economics. The majority of the collection focuses on Hurwicz's work after 1970, most notably his collaborations with Stanley Reiter, Kenneth Arrow, Don Saari, Thomas Marschak and Marcel Richter.
- Repository
- David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
- Creator
- Hurwicz, Leonid.
- Title
- Leonid Hurwicz Papers, 1930-2008 and undated
- Language of Material
- English
- Extent
- 150 Linear Feet, Approximately 200,000 Items
- Location
- For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
The Leonid Hurwicz Papers span the years 1930-2008, covering his entire career as an economist in the United States, from his early work at MIT, the University of Chicago and the Cowles Commission until his death as an Emeritus Professor at the University of Minnesota. The collection is arranged in the following series: Correspondence, Electronic Files, Personal Files, Printed Material, Professional Services Series, Research and Writings, and Teaching Material. Though there are correspondence, legal, financial, and other papers documenting his migration to the United States, there have been no items discovered that document his training as an economist at the University of Warsaw or at the London School of Economics. The majority of the collection focuses on Hurwicz's work after 1970, most notably his collaborations with Stanley Reiter, Kenneth Arrow, Don Saari, Thomas Marschak and Marcel Richter.
Though there is a significant group of personal and professional correspondence, the majority of the papers reside in the Research and Writings Series, which contains extensive files of Hurwicz's research notes, reprints, and revisions of working papers by Hurwicz and others with added annotations. Broadly speaking, the research files document important developments in postwar mathematical economics and Hurwicz's seminal contributions to this field of study. Recurring subjects in the papers include Cowles-style econometrics; the stability of general equilibrium; the integrability of demand functions; the study of monopoly and oligopoly; decision-making under ambiguity; the second welfare theorem; the applications of game theory to economic, social and political issues; and the development of mechanism design, for which Hurwicz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007. With his theories on mechanism design (including the notion of incentive-compatibility), Hurwicz analyzed the functioning of institutions and communication systems such as banking, auctions, and privatized markets, and compared political systems such as socialism and capitalism.
In addition to documenting Hurwicz's work in theoretical economics, the collection also follows his professional activities at the University of Minnesota, both as a teacher and as an active member of the Economics Department, his participation on various committees, and his work with institutions such as the Cowles Commission, RAND corporation, the National Science Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Also in evidence is Hurwicz's interest in the development of foreign economies, with an emphasis on East Asia, Russia, and Eastern Europe. His numerous travels and presentations during his career as well as his continuous relations with European and Asian economists are documented chiefly in the Professional Service Series. Finally, the Printed Materials Series as well as the Research and Writings Series offer a significant amount of works by others documenting the development of recent economics. Some are annotated by Hurwicz.
Electronic files have been transferred to the electronic records server. They consist chiefly of Word processing documents containing drafts of Informational Efficiency, which Hurwicz co-authored with Reiter in the late 1990s. A use copy of original electronic files must be made before contents can be accessed; please contact a reference archivist before coming to use this material.
Detailed descriptions on the arrangement and content of each series can be found in the respective sections in this collection guide.
Access Restrictions
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Consists of two groupings of professional correspondence maintained by Hurwicz, chiefly from the 1970s and 1980s. There is no significant difference between the two subseries, except that the first is more focused on the 1980s and the second chiefly on the period from 1977-1979. The two collections overlap occasionally. There are a few attached reprints or notes. The files are arranged alphabetically by senders or recipients, or by subject. Though the files contain extensive correspondence between Hurwicz and his colleagues, these exchanges are for the most part routine and contain few extended conversations on economics. Original folder titles are retained. Additional and perhaps more significant correspondence may be found in the Research Files (particularly in the Arrow, Marschak, Reiter and Uzawa files), as well as in the Professional Service Series. A small but significant amount of correspondence regarding Hurwicz's immigration and earliest years in the United States is located in the Personal Files Series - much of this in Polish.
Academy of Independent Scholars
Box 1
American Academy of Arts and Science
Box 1
American Economic Association
Box 1
Carlson Chair Search committee
Box 2
Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences
Box 2
Center for Austrian Studies
Box 2
Center for Humanistic Studies
Box 2
Civil Service, Sexual Harassment
Box 2
College of Liberal Arts
(12 folders)
Box 3
CBASSE - Food stamp program
Box 3
CBASSE - Report on Women's employment and related social issues
Box 3
Committee for Constitutional Integrity
Box 3
Committee on Scholarly Communication with The People's Republic of China
Box 3
Decentralization conference
Box 4
Distinguished teacher nominations
Box 4
Economic Report of the President
Box 5
Economics Research Library Acquisitions
Box 5
Econometric Society
(3 folders)
Box 5
Evan Philadelphia Conference
Box 5
Expenses, Washington D.C., 1982
Box 5
Fisher and Taussig Awards
Box 6
Future of Public Education in Minnesota
Box 6
Gerstein Committee
(5 folders)
Box 6
Gottinger, Hans
(2 folders)
Box 6
Graduate School
(3 folders)
Box 6
Graduate School - Sexual Harassment
Box 7
Guggenheim Foundation
(2 folders)
Box 7
Harvard University - Society of Fellows
Box 7
Haskell and Stern Associates
Box 7
Heller, Walter
(2 folders)
Box 7
Heller/Starr NSF Proposal
Box 7
Hong Kong Branch, Holt Publishing Company
Box 7
Hurbermon - Paper Review for Proceeding
Box 7
Concordia University, 1989
Box 7
Conference in honor of L. McKenzie
Box 7
Coordination Theory Workshop, 1988
Box 7
Workshop on Effective Content of Mathematical Models in the Behavorial Sciences, UC Irvine, 1988
Box 7
Barcelona Honorary Degree, 1988
Box 7
New York University Oskar Morgenstern Visiting Fellow, 1990
Box 7
World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, 1990
Box 8
Jacob Schodler Memories Lectures
Box 8
Mechanical Engineering Seminar, 1988
Box 8
Northwestern University visit, 1988-1989
Box 8
Decentralization Conference, New York, 1987
Box 8
Letters from Susan Walz (LH's secretary) in China
Box 8
Hart, Aumann "Handbook of Game Theory" chapter on implementation
Box 8
Workshop on the effective content of mathematical models
Box 8
Saarlandes "general discussion," 1989
Box 8
Hurwicz/Walker, Econometrica
Box 8
Hurwicz/Thomson, Journal of Complexity
Box 8
Hurwicz, Joan Robinson Project, ed. by Feiwel
Box 8
Hurwicz/Weinberger, decentralization
Box 8
Hurwicz, American Mathematical Monthly
Box 8
Journal of Complexity, Hurwicz/Marschak
Box 9
International Journal of Development Planning Literature
Box 9
CLA consultative committee, 1983
Box 9
Committee on Economic Theory, 1989
Box 9
Executive Committee, 1986-7
Box 9
Conference on the theory of incentives
Box 9
Faculty activity reports, 1983-1985, 1991-1997
(6 folders)
Box 9
Elementary Chinese classes
Box 9
Boulder and Berkeley, 1982
Box 9
Honorary Degree - Northwestern University
Box 9
University of California, Santa Cruz
Box 9
State University of NY at Albany
(2 folders)
Box 9
Southern Illinois University
Box 9
Center for Control Sciences
Box 10
Professional activities, 1981-1982
Box 10
Daily article, senate meeting, 1978
(2 folders)
Box 10
Personal Economics / Meteorology
Box 10
Search committee, dean of graduate school
Box 10
Latin AEA, Morende Felipe, 1989
Box 10
Decentralization Conference, 1983
Box 10
University Senate - Nominating committee
Box 10
Managing Change in East-Asia, 1987
Box 10
Vandereer Speaker at IL University
Box 10
Commitments, unable to meet
Box 10
Indonesia, Second University, Development Projet, 1981
Box 10
Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics
Box 10
Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications
Box 10
International Research and Exchange Board
Box 10
Jacob Schmookler Memorial lectures, 1976
Box 10
Journal of Mathematical Economics
Box 11
Journal of Political Economy
Box 11
Heller - A commitment to focus
Box 11
Kurz Mordecai
(2 folders)
Box 11
Laffont - St-Pierre Review
Box 11
Lambert - Feder Chair of Public Choice Theory
Box 11
Magrath, C. Peter
(2 folders)
Box 12
Mathematics Dept. Colloquium
Box 12
Mathematics, Statistics Books
Box 12
Midwest Math Economic Conference
Box 12
Minnesota Economic Association
Box 13
Moe, Donald, State Senator
Box 13
NAS (National Academy of Sciences)
(3 folders)
Box 13
National Research Council
(3 folders)
Box 13
NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Box 13
National Science Foundation
(Folders 1-2 of 13)
Box 13
National Science Foundation
(Folders 3-13 of 13)
Box 14
Office of Research Administration
Box 14
Report and Review Committee
Box 15
Ruttan, Vern
(Folders 1-10 of 16)
Box 15
Ruttan, Vernon
(Folders 11-16 of 16)
Box 16
Salmela, Ron, photographer
Box 16
Senate committee on Faculty Affairs
(3 folders)
Box 16
Sloan Funding Progress Report
Box 16
Symposium for PhD Centenary
Box 17
Travel - University of Minnesota policies
Box 17
Twin Cities Assembly
(3 folders)
Box 17
University of Pennsylvania, 1982
Box 18
Uzawa, Japan Foundation Application
Box 18
Vice President for Administration - Search Process
Box 18
Washington State University
Box 18
Boston conference, 1980
(2 folders)
Box 19
Decentralization Conference, 1979
Box 19
Ericson, Richard
(2 folders)
Box 19
Heal, Geoffrey
(2 folders)
Box 20
Hurwicz commitment, Stanford, 1978
Box 20
Lange, Oskar Honorary Essay, 1963
Box 20
Midwest Conf. On Mathematical Economics
Box 20
Midwest Conference on Mathematical Economics
Box 20
National Academy of Science, 1981-1982
Box 21
Pazner, Elisha
(2 folders)
Box 21
Postlewaite, Andrew
(2 folders)
Box 21
Samuelson, Paul (on Hurwicz/Reiter and the Ville Theorem), 1979
Box 21
Schmeidler, David
(3 folders)
Box 21
Williams, Steve
(4 folders)
Box 22
Word processing documents containing drafts of Informational Efficiency, which Hurwicz co-authored with Reiter in the late 1990s.
[Original electronic files have been stored on a library server and are available; a use copy must be made before contents can be accessed. Please contact a reference archivist before coming to use this collection.]
Includes early letters and other items documenting Hurwicz's migration to the U.S. from Poland, his curriculum vitae, press clippings, Nobel Prize memorabilia, and obituaries following his death in 2009. Many of the letters written in Polish to Hurwicz in the early 1940s appear to be from his father and other family members, who also emigrated to the U.S. after Hurwicz. Arranged in topical groups, with the correspondence in chronological order.
Early correspondence and non-professional correspondence
(6 folders)
Box 23
Various documents about Europe and the London School of Economics
Box 23
Letters and documents about Hurwicz's migration to the U.S.
Box 23
Academic Records, 1930s-1940s
Box 23
Curriculum vitae, 1988-1999
Box 24
Curriculum vitae, 1991-2000
Box 25
Who's Who in the Midwest, 2006
Box 25
Press clipping and letters related to Hurwicz's Nobel Prize,2007
Box 25
Biographical brochures (posthumous), 2008
Box 25
Press clipping about LH's death
Box 25
McCarthy period inquiry into LH, 1951
Box 25
University of Illinois resignation, 1951
Box 25
University of Minnesota, Friends and Colleagues, Messages to L. Hurwicz for the Nobel Prize, 2007 Oct. 23
Box 25
University of Minnesota, Students and Alumni, messages to L. Hurwicz for the Nobel Prize, 2007 Oct. 23
Box 25
Consists chiefly of reprints and working papers, generally bound printed materials with a few annotations. LH's reprints and working papers are arranged in chronological order. Printed materials by colleagues are arranged by alphabetical order of the first author's last name. Though these are mainly articles, they also include PhD dissertations, reports or memoranda which are arranged alphabetically by author's name or by the institution for which it was written. The series also contains a full box of various brochures (economics departments, conference programs) and a box filled with unidentified papers in Russian.
1950s, with Kenneth Arrow
Box 26
1950s, Office of Naval Research, with K. Arrow
Box 26
1970-1975, with Reiter and Radner
Box 27
1975-1979, University of Minnesota
Box 27
1986 (on resource allocations)
Box 28
1990s, with Reiter and Richter
Box 28
2000s, with Richter and Marschak
Box 28
Champlin (PhD dissertation)
Box 30
Chipman (including his report on the theory of international trade)
Box 30
Haavelmo (Theory and Measurement of Economic Relations)
Box 32
Hartman (PhD dissertation)
Box 33
Indian Economy
(2 reports)
Box 34
Lange (essay on economic planning)
Box 35
U.S. Air Force
(2 reports)
Box 41
U.S. Congress (nuclear proliferation, 1977)
Box 41
Webb, Michael G. (nationalized industries)
Box 41
World Bank (report on Poland, 1987)
Box 42
Works in Russian (papers and reprints)
Box 43-44
Documents Hurwicz's professional activities not directly related to research or teaching, such as research funding, publishing, Hurwicz's membership in various associations, participation on panels and committees, administrative tasks at the University of Minnesota, letters of recommendation, foreign travels, and speaking engagements. The materials cover most of Hurwicz's career with a stronger emphasis on activities after the 1980s. There are four subseries: Professional Activities by Subject (3.5 boxes), Letters of Recommendation (0.5 box), Foreign Travel (3 boxes) and Invited Talks (5 boxes).
American Economic Association
Box 45
American Academy of Arts and Science
Box 45
Cambridge University Press, 1987-8
Box 45
Chuo Research Unit for Global Environment
Box 45
Doctoral Evaluation Program
Box 45
Econometric Society, 1960s-1977
Box 45
Econometric Society 1977-2005
Box 46
International Economic Association
Box 46
Indian Statistical Institute
Box 46
Institute of Economics and Statistics
Box 46
Journal of Comparative Economics
Box 46
Metropolitan Transit Committee
Box 46
Minnesota Academy of Science
Box 46
National Academy of Science
Box 46
National Medal of Science
Box 47
NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Box 47
Publishing - Book Projects, 1980s
(2 folders)
Box 48
Stanford University Press
Box 48
University of Minnesota
(8 folders)
Box 48
China, 1989-1990
(4 folders)
Box 49
USSR and various documents
Box 51
Represents approximately seventy percent of the collection. Contains notes, drafts, working papers, reprints, annotated manuscripts, faxes and letters related to Hurwicz's work as an economist. These papers span Hurwicz's entire career from his work with Kenneth Arrow and Hiro Uzawa at Cowles in the 1940s on the stability of general equilibrium and the integrability of demand functions, to his collaboration with Stanley Reiter on Designing Economic Mechanisms (2006). For the most part, Hurwicz's original arrangement and folder titles have been retained. Roughly half of the Research and Writings series (51 boxes) is arranged in subject groupings - either an important topic within Hurwicz's work or an extended collaboration with a colleague; there is also a file on China. Within any given subject, these materials are arranged in rough chronological order. There are also three boxes of correspondence related to works by others and seven boxes of unbound annotated works by others (in contrast with those included with the Printed Materials series, these are unbound and some are unpublished). Ninety-one other boxes contain various research files that are not arranged in any way but left in their original order; the content of the boxes is described briefly and broadly, with significant topics or individuals highlighted whenever possible. There are a number of files related to geographical headings there, especially relating to the economy of the former Soviet Union, and in smaller degree to Poland, Eastern Europe, and New Zealand.
Includes single subject files, as well as larger groupings of files on Hurwicz's collaborations with Arrow, Marshak, Reiter, Richter, and Saari. These files can contain significant amounts of correspondence. Additional correspondence can be found in the Personal Files and Correspondence Series.
Arrow's paper for PhD graduation, 1949
Box 57
Gradient Methods and Lagrangian Problems, 1950s
Box 57
Correspondence, 1952-1953, 1957, 1959, 1973
Box 57
"Programming general spaces"
Box 57
"Selfishness and Decentralization," 1959
Box 57
On the Dimensional Requirement
Box 58
Correspondences, 1978-1982, 1992, 1995, 1998
Box 58
Undated research materials (one binder)
Box 58
Chipman, John (including his collaboration with J. Moore)
Box 59
Drafts and notes in relation with "What is the Coase Theorem?", 1993-1995
Box 60
The case of two firms, drafts and notes, 1997-2001
Box 61
Drafts, notes and presentations, 1960-1995
Box 62
Baumol on the Coase Theorem (externalities)
Box 62
Transparencies and talks, 1995-1999
Box 63
Identification in Lagged Shock-Error Models, 1949
Box 64
"Decision Making under ignorance," 1951
Box 64
"On the consequence of Incorrect specifications," 1952
Box 64
"Decentralized Resources allocations," 1954-1955
Box 64
Debreu, Gérard (Works by and Notes on), 1959-1981
Box 65
Decentralization, Incentive Structures and Incomplete Information, 1982
Box 65
Optimal Intertemporal Allocation Mechanisms & Decentralization of Decision, 1985
Box 65
Dimensional Requirements, 1974-1977
Box 66
Handout for Warwick, 1962
Box 66
"Revisiting externalities," 1999
Box 66
Feiwel's interview, in relation with the works on general equilibrium with Arrow 1985
Box 67
Several drafts, proofs and corrections
Box 67
Guesnerie, Roger (annotated papers)
Box 67
Hammond, Peter (annotated papers)
Box 67
Harsanyi, John (annotated papers)
Box 67
Economics of Exhaustible Resources, 1931
Box 67
Comments on Hands and Mirowski's paper on Hotelling
Box 67
Various notes, proofs and corrections by Hurwicz on Hands and Mirowski,
Box 68
Integrability of Demand Functions, various notes, 1968-1969
Box 68
Irrational Societies, 1985-1988
Box 68
Lerner, Abba (notes on), incl.: controversy with Paul Samuelson 1959
Box 68
Lindbeck (annotated papers)
Box 68
Majundar, M. (works by and with), 1980s
Box 69
Papers in honor of Marschak, some drafts
Box 69
Mechanism design, book project
Box 69
Letters and drafts in relation to a book published by Edna Leohman and Marc Kilgour, 1994-1997
Box 69
These papers document Hurwicz's works in relation with Thomas Marschak. They contain drafts and notes on collaborative works as well as reprints of Marschak's works with annotations by Hurwicz. Most of their collaboration took place during the 1980s and dealt with mechanism design (dimensional requirements, resource allocations mechanisms). Arranged chronologically.
Works by Marschak, 1964-1981
Box 70
Various drafts and revisions, 1964-1981
Box 70
Drafts and revisions 1981-1984
Box 71
Drafts and revisions, 1984-1986
Box 72
Drafts, reprints and revisions, 1986-1997
Box 73
Faxes, drafts, prints and revisions, 1997-2001
Box 74
Maskin, E. (annotated papers and drafts on)
Box 74
Monopoly - optimality, 2002
Box 75
Monopoly - non-optimality
Box 75
Monopolistic Competition, 1970-1971
Box 75
"Effects of Entry On Profits Under Monopolistic Competition," 1986
Box 75
Various drafts and documents in relation with "effects of entry on profits under monopolistic competition"
Box 76
Nakamura, Shinsuke (notes on), 1988-1996
Box 76
"On Cournot's solution of the Duopoly problem and the Nash Equilibrium Point," drafts and comments by Samuelson, includes a reprint of Nash, 1950, and bibliography
Box 76
On attainable Nash equilibria, 1974, drafts and transparencies
Box 76
Collaboration with Schmeidler, drafts and notes
Box 77
Correspondence with JET in relation with "Attainable Nash equilibria," 1977
Box 77
McKenzie volume, Walrasian and Lindahl allocations at Nash Equilibrium, 1979
Box 77
Nash implementability, 1982
Box 77
James Jordan on Nash, 1998
Box 78
Walrasian and Lindahl allocations at Nash Equilibrium, feasible implentations, 1997-2001
Box 78
Nash Equilibrium, Miscellaneous, 1987-1990
Box 78
Public Goods (Hurwicz on), 1994
Box 78
Public Goods, Lindahl vs. Walrasian quadratics, 1979
Box 78
Radner and Reiter (works with), 1972
Box 78
Samuelson (article about and works by), 1964, 1970
Box 78
Shapiro (works in collaboration with), drafts, 1977
Box 78
Stability of General Equilibirum, 1957 (with Arrow), History
Box 78
Hurwicz's collaboration with Stanley Reiter and Donald Saari represents a significant part of the Research and Writings Series. Spanning over three decades, those are very dense research materials including numerous projects, drafts, revisions, book chapters, proofs and presentations in seminars and conferences. The main output of this collaboration is Hurwicz and Reiter's Designing Economic Mechanisms, published in 2006. Preliminary work in relation with this book begins by 1978. Those papers are divided in two subseries: the Reiter collaboration and the HRS collaboration. HRS seems to be mostly a subdivision of the work by Hurwicz and Reiter, with added commentaries by Saari. Numerous drafts of book chapters with a similar aspect can be found with numerous annotations and subtle differences. One may find seemingly similar materials in the H/R files (11 boxes) on one hand and in the H/R/S files (12 boxes) on the other hand. The material, dealing with mechanism design, is heavily mathematical with an extensive use of geometric techniques - annotated reprints of Spivak's Differential Geometry are included. Recurring themes are the rectangle method and the condensation theorem. Beside collaborative works, these papers include other works by Reiter and Saari, with light annotations by Hurwicz and/or related correspondences. Each subseries is arranged in chronological order.
Working papers by S. Reiter, 1950s
Box 79
Reiter on Externalities, 1960s
Box 79
"On the boundedness of feasible set ...," 1971
Box 79
Reiter on Informativeness, 1971
Box 79
Notes on Mount and Reiter, 1980-1983
Box 79
"Minimal decompositions," 1976
Box 79
Works done with Reiter in Evanston, 1979
Box 79
Works on "Chapter 1" (untitled), several versions and revisions, 1992
Box 81
Reiter on "Discovery and Growth," 1993
Box 81
"Reverse Engineering," 1996
Box 82
"Constructing a special transversal," 1998
Box 83
Chapter II, Part A (on transversals)
Box 83
"Transversals and systems," 1998
Box 83
"Condensation," various notes, memos and drafts (revisions)
Box 84
"Flagpole Method," 1999-2000
Box 85
Various notes, memos and drafts (revisions)
Box 85
Mount and Reiter, photocopies, 2001
Box 85
Various notes, memos and drafts (revisions)
Box 86
Reprints, notes and faxes in preparation for the book Designing Economic Mechanisms, 2002-2004
Box 86-88
Cambridge University Press, correspondences about Designing Economic Mechanisms, 2004-2006
Box 88
Designing Economic Mechanisms, dust cover, 2006
Box 88
Various drafts by Reiter, 2004-2006
Box 88
Various arranged folders and thick binders, 1992-2004
Box 89
Saari and Reiter on "separability," 1977
Box 90
On Constructing Mechanisms, draft, 1978
Box 90
Various notes, drafts and reprints, 1978-1979
Box 91
Saari's corrections, 1979
Box 92
"Distribution of Differential Equations," 1980
Box 92
Chapter IV, Th. 6 and 7, notes
Box 92
Steve William's comments, 1980
Box 92
"A Geometric Interpretation of the Integrability Conditions in Terms of Ideals," 1980
Box 93
"Separable performance functions"
Box 93
A thick folder with arranged documents
Box 94
HRS, New Delhi, expository notes, 1981
Box 94
Various works on transversals (construction, derivation), 1986
Box 95
Various drafts and revisions on "transversals," 1987
Box 97
"On Modeling Institutions," New York AEA Meeting, 1988
Box 98
Various drafts and revisions
Box 98
Inventory of papers (by topics), 1989-1990
Box 98
Perfect Product Structures
Box 99
Miscellaneous papers, 1990-2003
(accordion folder of drafts and reprints)
Box 99
Spivak's Differential Geometry, book reprint with annotations
Box 101
Contains drafts and notes on collaborative work as well as reprints of Richter's writings with annotations by Hurwicz. Most of their collaboration took place in the 1990s and dealt with welfare economics. Arranged chronologically.
Reprints of Richter's articles and photocopies of Hurwicz's notes on Richter, 1960s
Box 101
"Revealed Preference Theory," 1966
Box 101
"Social Choice, Competition and the Core," 1975
Box 101
Richter's notes on Nash Equilibrium, 1975
Box 101
Integrability, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1979
Box 101
Richer's curriculum, 1984
Box 101
Richter on Public Goods, 1988
Box 101
A General Implicit Function Theorem, 1994
Box 102
Optimization and Lagrange Multipliers, 1996
Box 102
Works on the 2nd Welfare Theorem
Box 102
Rational Choice by Richter, n.d.
Box 102
"A note on the 2nd fundamental theorem of classical welfare economics," 1996
Box 102
Works on the 2nd fundamental Welfare Theorem
Box 103
Richter's vitae and various papers, 1998
Box 103
"The Second fundamental theorem of classical welfare economics," multiple versions, 2000-2001
Box 104
Preliminary Thought on Disposability, 2001
Box 104
"Second Welfare Theorem," transparencies for presentation
Box 105
"Lagrange Multipliers," transparencies
Box 105
Arrow, Hurwicz and Uzawa's Studies in Linear and Non-Linear Programming (in Russian), 1958
Box 105
The Integrability of Demand Functions
Box 105
Asymptotic Production Sets
Box 105
Correspondences and materials in relation with integrability
Box 105
Uzawa, Hirofumi, post 1960s
Box 106
Uzawa on the Integrability of Demand Functions, 1971
Box 106
Varian, Hal, annotated works by, 1972-1977
Box 106
Weinberger, Hans, collaboration, 1985-1987
Box 106
Werner, Jan, collaboration, 1993-1995
Box 106
Werner on "Domain of Demand, The Minimum-Wealth Condition, The Existence of Competitive Equilibrium," 1995
Box 107
Steve Williams (annotated papers by), 1992-1996
Box 107
Williamson, Oliver (annotated papers), 1964-1981
Box 107
Resource Allocation, 1978-1985
Box 108
Nash Equilibrium (with Arrow)
Box 108
Incentive Structures and Maximizing Residual Gain, 1977-1981
Box 108
Institutions and Institutional Change, 1987-1990
Box 108
Linear and Non-Linear Programming (with Arrow and Uzawa), 1958-1986
Box 108
Discrete Allocation Mechanisms with Marschak, 1981-1985
(3 folders)
Box 109
Constructing Mechanisms with Message Spaces with Reiter and Saari, 1978
Box 109
Economics of New Orleans, 1976
Box 110
Economic Impact of ISPAs, 1976
Box 110
Imperfect Markets with Free Entry, 1979
Box 110
Reiter's Notes and Origainal Work
Box 110
Incentive Compatibility, 1974
Box 111
Miscellaneous Notes
(11 folders)
Box 111
Centralized and Decentralized Structures, 1958 and undated
Box 111
Maximizing Life Saving by others
Box 111
Cost-Benefit Analysis, 1997
Box 112
Designing Mechanisms, 1995
Box 112
Transversals, Rectification, and Equilibrium, 1990
Box 112
Adjustment Processes, 1955
Box 112
Cores and Competitive Equilibria in Discrete Spaces, 1992
Box 112
Various notes, transparencies, and miscellaneous documents
(15 folders)
Box 113
Reiter, Arrow, and Marschak Collaborations
Box 113
Integrability of Demand Functions with Uzawa, 1971
Box 113
Decision and Organization with Marschak, 1971
Box 113
Manuscripts and Publications by LH and others, 1951-1984
Box 113
Collaboration with Marschak, 1979-1982
Box 114
Thomson, Linear Utilities
Box 114
Teaching material, 1975-1983
Box 114
Reiter correspondence and collaboration, 1973-1983
Box 114
Collaborations with Arrow, 1959 and undated
Box 114
Correspondences, 1979-1981
(14 folders)
Box 114
Reiter, "Organization Theory," 1955 and undated
Box 115
Mark Walker Collaboration, 1983
Box 115
Incentives and Resource Allocation
(7 folders)
Box 115
Papers by Others
(13 folders)
Box 116
LH Publications and Presentations
(19 folders)
Box 116
Notes and Miscellaneous Files
(6 folders)
Box 116
LH Writing and Notes
(10 folders)
Box 117
Others' Work
(10 folders)
Box 117
Intertemporal Reprints
(8 folders)
Box 118
LH papers (Decentralization, Institutions, Social Choice), 1984-1987
Box 118
Work with Reiter, 1965-1969
Box 118
Drafts and Outlines, 1967-1969, 2002-2004
(11 folders)
Box 119
LH Notes and Miscellaneous Files
(8 folders)
Box 119
Fran Walker Editing and Notes, 2004
Box 119
Fran Walker Collaboration
(11 folders)
Box 120
Drafts, Manuscripts, and Publications
Box 120
Optimality, Efficiency, & Resource Allocation
Box 122
Notes and miscellaneous documents
Box 123
Macroeconomics, Models, Systems, and Structures
(5 folders)
Box 123
Original Essays
(4 folders)
Box 124
Collaboration with Anderson, 1948
Box 125
Weinberger Collaboration, 1987
Box 125
"Construction of Outcome Functions...," Collaboration with David Schmiedler
Box 126
Work with Richter, 1976-1979
Box 126
International Colloquium, 1965
Box 126
Notes and Presentations
(11 folders)
Box 127
Notes, Teaching, and Misc.
(9 folders)
Box 128
Information and Incentives
Box 128
Informationally Decentralized Pareto-Satisfactory Processes, 1971
Box 128
Work and Correspondence with Others
(11 folders)
Box 129
Informational Requirements
Box 129
Decentralization (LH own work and with Marschak)
Box 130
Information and Incentives
Box 130
Stochastic Adjustment with Roy Radner, 1977
Box 130
Decentralized Mechanisms, Given Parameter Indexed Product Structures
Box 131
Reprints of LH and others
(8 folders)
Box 132
Collaboration with Reiter, 1989
Box 132
Walrus and Lindhal Outcome Functions
Box 132
Notes and Misc.
(14 folders)
Box 132
Collaboration with Schmeidler, 1977
Box 133
Incentive Compatibility and Resource Allocation, 1975
Box 133
Integrability and Thermodynamics with Richter, 1978
Box 133
Ville Axioms and Consumer Theory with Richter, 1979
Box 133
Economic reform in New Zealand
Box 135
Second Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics, 1998
Box 135
Professional papers and curriculam vitae
Box 135
Economic development issues, KDI, 1991-1992
Box 135
Drafts by Hurwicz on Lindahl equilibria, 1996-2002
Box 136
Complexity chaos encryption
Box 136
Institutional design, notes
Box 136
Aumann, Correlated equilibrium
Box 137
Marimon, Lecture notes, 1986
(3 folders)
Box 137
Clippings about Soviet Union
Box 137
Journal of Mathematical Economics, special issue on implementation, 1982
Box 140
Agenda, Committee on Basic Research in the Behavioral Sciences, 1983
Box 141
Nobel Prize correspondence, 2002
Box 141
Second fundamental theorem of welfare economics
Box 142
Braguinsky, correspondence and faxes, 1999
Box 142
d'Aspremont and Gerard-Varet, On Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanisms, 1979
Box 142
On Modeling Institutions, Hurwicz, Barcelona, 1989
Box 142
Collaboration with Reiter
Box 143
Papers presented to the Joint Economic Committee and congressional hearings on Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1992
Box 143
Hurwicz, Decentralizability in the presence of externalities,1967
Box 144
Statements before Congress, 1970
Box 144
Hurwicz,Economic Issues in the Utilization of Knowledge
Box 144
Conditions for economic efficiency of centralized and decentralized structures
Box 144
Between utopia and the status quo
Box 144
Collaboration with Richter, 1994
Box 145
Notes, Hurwicz,Decentralizability in the presence of externalities, 1966
Box 145
Society for Economic Design, 2002
Box 147
Hurwicz, et al., Feasible Nash implementation of social choice rules when the designer does not know endowments or production sets
Box 147
Page proofs, Japanese Economic Review, 1996
Box 147
Reprints and drafts, institutions, 1987-1994
Box 147
Unpublished draft, Hurwicz, et al. Feasible Nash implementation of social choice rules when the designer does not know endowments or production sets, 1994
Box 148
Corrected galley proof, Hurwicz, Toward a framework for analyzing institutions and institutional change, 1990
Box 149
Green and Lafont
(3 folders)
Box 149
Monopolistic competition, 1971
Box 149
Design of mechanisms for resource allocation, 1972
Box 150
Informational efficiency
(6 folders)
Box 150
Notes and printed material
Box 152
Community indifference curves
Box 154
Demsetz, monopolistic competition
Box 154
Ely Lecture, Hurwicz, Design of mechanisms for resource allocation, 1974
(2 folders)
Box 154
Hurwicz, Institutions
(17 Folders)
Box 155
Econometric society, aide memoire
Box 157
Collaboration with Richter, Optimization and Lagrange Multipliers
Box 158
Clippings, Economics Alerts, 1996
Box 159
Collaboration with Reiter, 1998
(14 folders)
Box 159
Pure Exchange
(2 folders)
Box 159
Reprint,What has happened to the theory of games, American Economic Review, 1953
Box 160
Galley proof, Cato Journal
Box 160
Draft and reprint, Outcome functions yielding Walrasian and Lindahl allocations at Nash Equilibrium points, 1976
Box 160
Reprint, Inventing new institutions
Box 160
Collaboration with Jordan, 1981
Box 160
Collaboration with Reiter, 1997-1998
(5 folders)
Box 160
Handout, Dimensional Requirements
Box 160
Collaboration with Saari and Reiter
Box 161
Graduate School Symposium, 1987
Box 162
Clippings, Soviet Union, Russia and Eastern Europe
Box 163
Tian, Lindahl Implementation
Box 164
Alphabetical, Verblunsky-Yannelis
Box 165
Alphabetical, Galasi-Hartman
Box 165
Alphabetical, Hartman-Humorous Science
Box 166
Clippings, notes and printed material
Clippings topics include: archaeology; bonds; Hurwicz; political climate of Eastern Europe, United States and Russia; 1968 Democratic Convention (Hurwicz served as delegate); and weather forecasts.
Box 167
Collaboration with Reiter
Box 168
Various papers by Hurwicz, 1996-1999
Box 168
Various papers by Hurwicz, 1996-1999
Box 169
Notes on Mechanism with Finite Message Spaces, 1982
Box 169
Saari, NBER conference, 1976
Box 169
Russian math photo-copies
Box 170
Manipulative Nash Equilibrium
Box 170
Decentralization and Resource Allocation
Box 170
Oxford, with Reiter
(4 folders)
Box 171
Scientific American, 1955
Box 171
Collaboration with Reiter, Transversals, 1992-1995
Box 172
Hurwicz, Ruth, creative writing
Box 172
Reverse engineering, 1993
Box 172
Mathematical Intelligencer, 1978
Box 173
Drafts, student dissertations
Box 173
Collaboration with Reiter and Saari
Box 174
On constucting mechanism with message spaces of minimal dimension for smooth performance functions, 1978
Box 174
Collaboration with Kannai, On the Demand Function Generated by a Smooth and Concavifiable Preference Ordering
Box 174
Bergstrom and Cornes, 1981-1983
Box 175
Milgrom, North and Weingast
Box 175
Decision and Organization, chapter 14 of Informationally Decentralized Systems
Box 176
Collaboration with Maskin and Postlewaite, Feasible Nash Implementation
Box 176
Mechanical Design and Institutions
Box 176
Modeling Institutional Change, Warsaw paper
Box 176
Modeling Institutional Change
Box 177
Contemporary Economic Issues, Chapter 4, 1998
Box 177
Revisiting externalities, 1998-1999
Box 177
Collaboration with Richter, Lagrange Multipliers
Box 178
Nash Implementability, 1982
Box 178
Mechanisms and Institutions, 1988
Box 179
Modeling Institutions, 1988-1990
Box 179
Conference, Econometric Society, Seoul, 1991
Box 179
Reiter, Regulations game, 1991
Box 179
Decentralizability and intertemporal allocation
Box 180
On Smooth Balanced Nash Mechanisms which Implement Pareto-optimal Performance Correspondence in Pure Exchange Economics
Box 180
Collaborations with Walker, Generic non-optimality dominant strategy allocation mechanisms, 1983, 1988
Box 180
Non wasteful resource allocation systems, 1976
Box 180
Collaboration with Richter, Ville Axioms, 1979
Box 180
Collaboration with Schmeidler, Pareto optimality of Nash Equilibrium, 1976
Box 180
Collaboration with Radner and Reiter, Decentralized Resource Allocation Process, 1973
Box 181
Handout, Farmer-Laborer (False Revelation), for Ely Lecture, 1972-1973
Box 181
Progress report on research activity, 1974-1975 (Minnesota)
Box 181
Mechanism design with and without games
Box 182
Collaboration with Saari and Reiter
Box 182
Saari and Simon, Econometrica, 1978
Box 183
Report of external review committee for Economics Department, Colorado, 1990
Box 183
Symposium, University of Minnesota, 1994
Box 183
Choices, games and their topology
Box 184
NBER-NSF Conference on Decentralization, U. of Pennsylvania, 1985
Box 184
Clippings, Eastern Europe
Box 184
National Science Foundation
Box 185
Sir William Meyer Endowment Lectures, Madras, 1981
Box 186
Walrasian and Lindahl allocations at Nash Equilibrium points
Box 186
Thompson Conference, 1994 July
Box 186
Berlin Symposium on Planning, 1973
Box 186
Weather modification, 1965
Box 187
Harold Hotelling and the Neoclassical Dream
Box 187
IEA Conference, Intervention, 1996 June 19
Box 188
Alphabetical, Bailey-Bruno
Box 188
Alphabetical, Chipman-Pelikan
Box 189
Postlewaite, Endowments, 1979
Box 190
Comments on Postlewaite, 1979
Box 191
Walrasian and Lindahl allocations at Nash Equilibrium points, 1999
Box 191
Manresa, comments on Hurwicz externalities paper
(3 folders)
Box 191
Organizational structures for joint decision making
Box 192
Resource allocation mechanisms
Box 192
Specifications, Econometrica, 1951
Box 193
Notes, history of stability, 1959
Box 193
Clippings, Democratic Farmer Labor Party
Box 193
Non-wasteful resource allocation systems
Box 193
Excerpts from interview with Hurwicz and Reiter, 1984 May 30
Box 193
Clippings, economy and weather
Box 193
Collaboration with Sertel, Tunis, 1995
Box 193
Arrow, Postlewaite, Radner, Reiter, Hurwicz, Report of the Working Group on Markets and Organizations, 1985
Box 193
Collaboration with Arrow, Decentralization
Box 194
Warsaw University, transparencies, 1995
Box 194
Hurwicz Axioms, notecards on models for decision making
Box 194
Stockholm Conference, 1997
(5 folders)
Box 195
On the Dimensional Requirements of Informationally Decentralized Pareto-Satisfactory Processes, 1975
Box 195
Attempt at Adaption for Individual Feasibility, 1977
Box 195
Notes, Berkeley symposium, Kuhn-Tucker, 1951
Box 195
Incentive-Compatible Allocation Systems, 1973
Box 195
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Informational efficiency narrative, 1997 Aug. 12
Box 196
Optimality and informational efficiency
Box 196
Collaboration with Maskin and Postlewaite
Box 196
Samuelson, Paul, correspondence and drafts of various papers
Box 196
Collaboration with Reiter
Box 197
Inventing New Institutions, 1987
Box 197
Chiefly consists of photocopies, course notes, transparencies and exam subjects. While as a whole the materials cover Hurwicz's entire career, the majority document his teaching activities after 1980. Documents are roughly arranged chronologically. One box is organized instead by topic, and contains courses on econometrics; one other contains PhD dissertations supervised by Hurwicz.
Miscellaneous, 1980s-1990s
Box 203
PhD dissertations supervised by LH
Box 205
Newspaper and political manifesto
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Chronology
| Date | Event(s) |
|---|
| 1917 Aug. 21 | Born in Moscow to Polish Jewish parents |
| 1919 | Family flees back to Warsaw |
| 1938 | After studying the piano, economics, and physics, graduated with a law degree from the University of Warsaw |
| 1938 | Began study of economics at London School of Economics |
| 1939 | Took refuge in Geneva and emigrated to the U.S. a year later |
| 1944-1946 | Research Associate at the Cowles Commission in Chicago, working chiefly on econometrics, a new field of study |
| 1945 | Published The Theory of Economic Behavior, American Economic Review, Vol. 35, No. 5, reprinted many times, most recently in 2004 |
| 1946-1949 | Professor of Economics at Iowa State |
| 1949-1951 | Professor of Economics, Maths and Statistics, University of Illinois |
| 1951-1999 | Professor of economics and mathematics in the School of Business Administration at the University of Minnesota. |
| 1958 | Publication of Studies in Linear and Non-Linear Programming, edited by Kenneth J. Arrow, Leonid Hurwicz, and Hirofumi Uzawa, Stanford University Press |
| 1961 | Became chair of the University’s statistics department |
| 1971 | Publication of Preferences, Utility,and Demand, edited by John S. Chipman, Leonid Hurwicz, Marcel K. Richter, and H. Sonnenschein, Harcourt Brace Jovanovic |
| 1977 | Published Studies in Resource Allocation Processes, edited by Kenneth J. Arrow and Leonid Hurwicz, Cambridge University Press |
| 1990 | Awarded the National Medal of Science by President Bush |
| 2006 | Published Designing Economic Mechanisms, with Stanley Reiter, Cambridge University Press |
| 2007 | Oldest individual to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, shared with Eric S. Maskin of Princeton University and Roger B. Myerson of the University of Chicago for mechanism-design theory |
| 2008 June 26 | Died at the age of 90 in Minneapolis |
- Hurwicz, Leonid.
- Arrow, Kenneth Joseph, 1921-
- Cowles Commission for Research in Economics.
- Demand functions (Economic theory)--Mathematical models.
- DVDs.
- East Asia--Economic conditions.
- Europe, Eastern -- Economics.
- Econometrics.
- Economics, Mathematical.
- Economics -- Mathematical models.
- Economists--Correspondence.
- Equilibrium (Economics).
- Game theory--Research.
- Machine-readable records.
- Marschak, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrew).
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics--Faculty.
- Mathematical optimization.
- Monopolies--Economic aspects.
- Oligopolies--Economic aspects.
- Reiter, Stanley.
- Richter, Marcel K.
- Russia -- Economic conditions.
- Saari, D. (Donald).
- University of Minnesota. Dept. of Economics--Faculty.
- University of Chicago. Dept. of Economics--Faculty.
- Uzawa, Hirofumi, 1928-
- Welfare economics--Research.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Poland.
- Kenneth J. Arrow Papers, 1939-2007, bulk 1980s-2002 (Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections, Duke University)
[Identification of item], Leonid Hurwicz Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The Leonid Hurwicz Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 2008 and 2009.
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