Ideologies / Georgism / William Vickrey
§ The minds · 1914–1996 · Canada / US · Economist & Nobel laureate
William Vickrey
Pricing the commons
Nobel economics with a Georgist heart.
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Governance−44
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The Nobel-laureate economist whose work on congestion pricing and land-value capture carried Georgist insight into mainstream public economics.
social
Progressive public economist.
economic
Congestion and land-value pricing to use common resources efficiently.
governance
Market mechanisms over heavy regulation.
Notable for
- Nobel Memorial Prize, 1996
- Pioneered congestion pricing
- Land-value public finance
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