González, Jorge Iván - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 10 (2008) July-December, pp. 115-129
When receiving the Nobel Prize, Hurwicz took up the question “who is watching the guards?” and considered two approaches. One pessimistic, inspired by Juvenal, which leads to an infinite sequence of guards, and one idealistic, derived from the Platonic dialogues. The guard cannot get drunk,...