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Leonid Hurwicz
Polish
Economist
Born:
Aug 21
,
1917
Died:
Jun 24
,
2008
Behavior
Game
Legal
People
Whatever
You
Related authors:
Adam Smith
Alan Greenspan
E. F. Schumacher
John Kenneth Galbraith
John Maynard Keynes
Milton Friedman
Paul A. Volcker
Thomas Sowell
Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.
Leonid Hurwicz
Legal
Behavior
Rational
Incompatible
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
You
Game
Behavior
Rules
Possibility
Point
Implies
Were
Then
Enforcement
Violates
Violation
Need
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
You
Constitution
People
Try
Believe
Honestly
Everybody
On The Contrary
Rules
Says
Put
Observe
Implement
Like
Because
Judges
Does
Effect
Contrary
Behave
Just
Just Because
Mean
Certain
Who
Violate
Watch
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
Life
Game
Legal
People
Economics
Real Life
Kinds
Some
Only
True
Contain
Like
Make
Real
Where
Moves
Gains
Them
Then
Use
Games
Illegal
Strategies
Two
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