Swedish 7 December 2007 Om att inte få Nobelpriset Jag står i dörren och ser genom yrande dammoln åt det håll där det ska finnas skog som fortfarande står orörd. I går körde jag kilometer efter kilometer genom kalhyggen och förkolnade brandrester efter en skog som 1956 var den vackraste jag någonsin sett men nu…

English December 7, 2007 On not winning the Nobel Prize I am standing in a doorway looking through clouds of blowing dust to where I am told there is still uncut forest. Yesterday I drove through miles of stumps, and charred remains of fires where, in ’56, there was…

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Artist: Karin Mamma Andersson Calligrapher: Annika Rücker Photo reproduction: Fredrika Berghult

I was born on 10 October 1936 in Bad Cannstatt which is part of the city of Stuttgart in the southwest of Germany. When I was 3 years old, the family moved to the nearby village of Schmiden where I entered elementary school in 1942. In summer 1946, I was admitted to Johannes Kepler Gymnasium…

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Nobel Prize Talks: Eric S. Maskin Released 2014-03-20 To master modeling is an art, says Eric Maskin. In this conversation recorded on location during a Nobel Media event in Rio de Janeiro, the 2007 Laureate in Economic Sciences explains how models can be applied to help tackle societal issues such as income inequality. He also…