Talk:William Vickrey

died from excitement
From what my professor, Tyler Cowen tells me, Vickery died of a heart attack because he was so excited to get the prize. Is there any confirmation on this?--Atlastawake 19:03, 12 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Vickrey seemed quite calm after receiving the prize -- a fact many attributed to his Quaker upbringing. He suffered his fatal heart attack while driving from New York to Boston for a speaking engagement to which he had committed months earlier.  The article's statement that he died while stuck in traffic is news to me, though it could well be true given the amount of traffic between the two cities.  I do know that he pulled over to the side of the road where he was found slumped over his steering wheel.

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of minor significance ... [to] human welfare
On the paper that earned him the Nobel Mem Prize:  Columbia economist WilliamVickrey confessed that the paper's practical contribution was next to nil. "At best, it's of minor significance in terms of human welfare," he told The New York Times.  http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1996/12/02/1996_12_02_050_TNY_CARDS_000376847 Mang (talk) 06:50, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

3 other posthumous Nobels?
The intro now says that "There are only three other cases where a Nobel Prize has been presented posthumously." Please name these three. One was Ralph Steinman whose 2011 Prize in Medicine was announced by a committee unaware of his death 3 days earlier. Who were the other two? Dirac66 (talk) 01:20, 8 July 2018 (UTC)


 * I have now found the list on the Nobel Prize website (page Nobel Prize Facts) and added it today. One technicality: Vickrey's name is not actually on the Nobel Prize Facts list. I presume that is because the Nobel Prize organization sometimes considers that the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is not quite a Nobel prize because it was not on Alfred Nobel's original list. Dirac66 (talk) 19:24, 18 September 2023 (UTC)