Foreword to the Symposium in Honor of Mordecai Kurz

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.