William Vickrey

Prize Lecture

Procuring Universal Service: Putting Auction Theory to Work

Lecture at the Royal Academy of Sciences, December 9, 1996 by Paul Milgrom

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From Nobel Lectures, Economics 1996-2000, Editor Torsten Persson, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 2003

William Vickrey: A Pioneer in the Economics of Incentives

Lecture, December 27, 1996 by Jean-Jacques Laffont

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From Nobel Lectures, Economics 1996-2000, Editor Torsten Persson, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 2003

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