The Roller-Skating Economist You Can Thank for Congestion Pricing NYT | Top Stories By: Ginia Bellafante 10 January 2025 at 16:00 Charging drivers to enter Lower Manhattan vindicates the lifelong mission of a Nobel laureate who, as it happened, died behind the wheel of a car. © Marilynn K. Yee/The New York TimesWilliam Vickrey, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and father of congestion pricing.