Hurwicz Quotes

#1. Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.

Eric Maskin

#2. My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.

Leonid Hurwicz

#3. He didn't do much of anything except ride that bike and listen to music.

Sherman Alexie

#4. A game is defined by the players' strategy domains and payoff functions.

Leonid Hurwicz

#5. We learn most not from all of the things that go right. We learn most when everything goes wrong.

Simon Sinek

#6. Just because there are people who violate rules, behave illegally and so on, it does not mean that everybody is like that. On the contrary, if you watch certain judges, you observe that they honestly try to implement what they believe the Constitution says and just put it into effect.

Leonid Hurwicz

#7. Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

Leonid Hurwicz

#8. I believe evidence is overwhelming that chronic Lyme is a terrible, overwhelming disease, and we need to find ways to treat this. To say otherwise is an inaccurate and unscientific opinion.

Chris Smith

#9. When you talk about the economic process of a society, sometimes we separate it into two stories. One is about monetary variables. But then, we very often assume the underlying arrangement, the other variable, is 'perfect competition,' which means people do whatever they are supposed to do.

Leonid Hurwicz

#10. Dream the impossible.
Reach for the unreachable.
Never lose faith in your own ability.

R.S. Johnson

#11. A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.

Leonid Hurwicz

#12. When sharing anything you've created with the world, you have to assume at the start that no one gives a damn about it. Well,

Alexis Ohanian

#13. There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

Frank Chodorov

#14. I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems.

Leonid Hurwicz

#15. There are two kinds of games in economics. One is the game where people use only legal moves. Then there is the true game, the one like real life, where the strategies and moves people make, some of them contain illegal gains.

Leonid Hurwicz

#16. To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

Michel Hazanavicius