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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1993

"for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change"
Robert W. Fogel Douglass C. North
Robert W. Fogel Douglass C. North
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA USA
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA		 Washington University
St. Louis, MO, USA
b. 1926 b. 1920
 
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