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The 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was bestowed upon Leonid Hurwicz, jointly with Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson, "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory." Their groundbreaking work provided a framework for designing institutions that facilitate optimal decision-making in the presence of asymmetric information and strategic interactions among individuals. This theoretical framework has far-reaching implications in various fields, including economics, political science, and computer science.