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Includes drafts, correspondence, and a manuscript of a joint work with Radner and Reiter about "A Stochastic Decentralized Resource Allocation Process." Arranged chronologically.

Includes notes, manuscripts, reprints, and correspondence with Reiter, who spent most of his career at Northwestern University. Hurwicz met Reiter in the early 1950s when Hurwicz served on Reiter's dissertation committee, and they remained in contact until Hurwicz's death in 2008. Most of the files concern their collaboration in the 1990s-2000s on a book about mechanism design, Designing Economic Mechanisms, as well as work on information economics. Arranged chronologically.

Includes the collaboration between Hurwicz, Reiter, and Saari on informational decentralization (many folders use their initials [HRS]). Parts of the initial project were rewritten in the 1980s and 2000s and used in the book written by Hurwicz and Reiter, Designing Economic Mechanisms. There is overlap with the Work with Stanley Reiter subseries, and there are a number of files from Steve Williams, who worked with them on a book project. Arranged chronologically.

Includes notes, manuscripts, reprints, and correspondence with Marschak, most from the 1980s. Hurwicz and Marschak collaborated on a half dozen projects about informational efficiency, economic organization, and resource allocation; also includes drafts for a joint book on discrete allocation mechanisms. Arranged chronologically.