Public Economics: Selected Papers by William Vickrey

by William S. Vickrey

The late Nobel Prize winner William Vickrey was one of the truly important figures in contemporary economics. Over the past fifty-five years he published several books and some 140 papers scattered over many journals. This book offers a thoughtful selection from these papers, organized to bring out the scope as well as the unity of the work. Vickrey had the unique distinction of having contributed, often seminally and always operationally, to all major branches of public economics. This is a fascinating overview of the field and of his life work.

Genres: Economics

572 pages, Paperback

First published February 25, 1994

Reviews

[Da Shahster · Rating 5 out of 5]

Damn they don't write papers like this anymore. Yeah you can get these on google scholar, but the paper selection is sick and a cool intro for budding econ theorists / mech designers. There are worlds contained in these sentences

I learned a lot + and had no idea vickrey motivated the difference principle in a throwaway paragraph years before Harsanyi or Rawls. pretty cool