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This collection of papers is dedicated to Mordecai Kurz - our friend, mentor, and colleague. They are to mark our appreciation of his contributions to economic science, from which we have all benefited enormously. A conference in his honor took place on August 2-3, 2002, co-hosted by the Stanford University Department of Economics, the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research, and Springer-Verlag. At this conference a selection of these papers was presented, along with some more recent work by several of the same authors and by other invitees.
Mordecai has enjoyed a long and outstandingly productive career. His favorable influence on the economics profession has already lasted almost forty years, and shows no sign of diminishing any time soon. He has made significant...