Prize announcement
Announcement of The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2000, by Professor Erling Norrby, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and comments about the prize by Professor Bertil Holmlund, Adjunct member of the Prize Committee, on October 11, 2000.
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