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"Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?"

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Titanic

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Economist

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About William Vickrey

William Vickrey was a Canadian-born American economist and Nobel laureate known for foundational work on auction theory and incentives under asymmetric information. He taught at Columbia University and shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

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