William Vickrey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William Vickrey

Canadian noble laureate in economics

Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1914

Place of Birth: British Columbia, Canada

Date of Death: 11-Oct-1996

Profession: economist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

William Spencer Vickrey (21 June 1914 – 11 October 1996) was a Canadian-born professor of economics and Nobel Laureate.
Vickrey was awarded the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Mirrlees for their research into the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in British Columbia. The announcement of his Nobel prize was made just three days prior to his death.
Vickrey died while traveling to a conference of Georgist academics that he helped found and never missed once in 20 years.
His Columbia University economics department colleague C.
Lowell Harriss accepted the posthumous prize on his behalf.
There are only three other cases where a Nobel Prize has been presented posthumously.