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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Much theoretical work, of course, focuses on existing economic institutions. The theorist wants to explain or forecast the economic or social outcomes that these institutions generate.

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• ‟ I choose questions to work on according to how much they excite me.

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• ‟ A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.

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• ‟ I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely.

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• ‟ Many markets work best with little or no outside interference. But others - especially those subject to big 'externalities' - need a helping hand.

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• ‟ The market doesn't work very well when it comes to public goods.

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• ‟ Markets work well with goods that economists call private goods.

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• ‟ The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners - they are usually pretty successful people already. But it is valuable as a way of drawing the public's attention to important work in economics.

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