CHAPTER 21 Chicago and MIT

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Prologue xi
5. CHAPTER 1 1939, sierpień/août/August 1
6. CHAPTER 2 Born a Refugee 3
7. CHAPTER 3 Now or Never 10
8. CHAPTER 4 Home Safe? 12
9. CHAPTER 5 Get an Education! 16
10. CHAPTER 6 The Miracle 18
11. CHAPTER 7 Hurwicz Home School 21
12. CHAPTER 8 Crisis, Coup, Catastrophe 27
13. CHAPTER 9 Astrophysics, Chopin and Jazz 31
14. CHAPTER 10 Economics and Einstein 33
15. CHAPTER 11 Socialist Calculation 35
16. CHAPTER 12 Brown Shirts and Ghetto Benches 39
17. CHAPTER 13 Graduation Getaway 45
18. CHAPTER 14 Math, Models and Mechanisms 48
19. CHAPTER 15 Government Intervention 54
20. CHAPTER 16 A Lifeline 56
21. CHAPTER 17 Hurwiczes on the Run 58
22. CHAPTER 18 An Intellectual Warrior at the School for Peace 62
23. CHAPTER 19 Leo Hurwicz: “Excess Foreign Population” 68
24. CHAPTER 20 Geneva to Chicago by Way of Locarno, Barcelona and Lisbon 74
25. CHAPTER 21 Chicago and MIT 83
26. CHAPTER 22 Surprise Attack 92
27. CHAPTER 23 Honey 100
28. CHAPTER 24 A Little Bit Unruly 107
29. CHAPTER 25 The Great Book Review 113
30. CHAPTER 26 A Slow and Difficult Process 117
31. CHAPTER 27 Just a Closer Walk with Stan 120
32. CHAPTER 28 Blood, Fire, Smoke, Exile and Human Kindness 124
33. CHAPTER 29 Mechanism Design: Development and Recognition 134
34. Epilogue 139
35. APPENDIX A Leo’s Memorial 141
36. APPENDIX B A Celebration of Leo’s 90th Birthday, Held at the Holiday Inn Metrodome, 1500 Washington Avenue South, in Minneapolis on April 14, 2007 164
37. APPENDIX C The Theory of Economic Behavior, by Leonid Hurwicz 178
38. APPENDIX D The Hurwicz Criterion 197
39. APPENDIX E Edited Transcript of 2007 Interview with Leo, Conducted by the Author 200
40. APPENDIX F A Timeline of the Life of Leo Hurwicz 208
41. APPENDIX G What Is Mechanism Design? 211
42. Index 215