William
S. Vickrey was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1914. His elementary
and secondary education were in
Europe and the United States, with graduation
from Phillips Andover Academy in 1931. He received a B.S. in mathematics from
Yale in 1935, followed by graduate work in economics at Columbia University from
1935 to 1937, when he received the M.A. degree. He then worked for the National
Resources Planning Board in Washington and the Division of Tax Research in the
U.S. Treasury Department.
A conscientious objector during World War
II, he spent part of his alternate service designing a new inheritance tax for
Puerto Rico. Columbia University awarded him the Ph.D. in economics in 1948. His
doctoral dissertation, Agenda for Progressive Taxation, was reprinted as
an "economic classic" in 1972.
In 1946 he began his teaching career
at Columbia University as a lecturer in economics.
He became a full professor
in 1958 and was named McVickar Professor of Political Economy in 1971. He was
chairman of the Department of Economics from 1964 to 1967 and retired as McVickar
Professor Emeritus in 1982.
A long career of research covered a large
range of subjects. The first of many involving efficient pricing of public utilities
done in 1939 and 1940 for the Twentieth Century Fund dealt with electric power.
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and served as a consultant in the United States and overseas and to the United
Nations.
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in
1992 served as president of the American
Economic Association. He was a Fellow
of the Econometric Society and received an honorary degree from the University
of Chicago in 1979.
He was a founding member of Taxation, Resources,
and Economic Development and was a member of many professional and civic organizations
and an active supporter of organizations promoting world peace. He belonged to
The Religious Society of Friends.
A 1994 volume, Public Economics
Cambridge University Press, contains a complete bibliography; it lists eight books,
139 articles, 27 reviews, and 61 unpublished articles and notes.
He was married to Cecile Thompson in 1951. They lived in Hastings-on-Hudson in
New York. He died in October 1996.
From Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1996, Editor Tore Frängsmyr, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1997
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William Vickrey died on October 11, 1996.