Iwas born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan to Abraham Isaac Milgrom and Anne Lillian Milgrom nee Finkelstein. Abraham Milgrom was born in Canada to Polish-Jewish immigrants, and Anne Finkelstein in Detroit, Michigan, to Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants. I am the second of the Milgroms’ four sons; Stuart is my older brother and Barry and Steven are my…

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/5TA-RolE2j8 Watch a video clip of the 2019 Laureate in Economic Sciences, Esther Duflo, receiving her Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rxB8ToX7qNg Watch a video clip of the 2019 Laureate in Economic Sciences, Michael Kremer, receiving his Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/A7cIQ56Jpk8 Watch a video clip of the 2019 Laureate in Economic Sciences, Abhijit Banerjee, receiving his Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/yyQ4oFjs7B4 Watch a video clip of the 2018 Laureate in Economic Sciences, William D. Nordhaus, receiving his Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/H_TLMFIgbYY Watch a video clip of the 2018 Laureate in Economic Sciences, Paul M. Romer, receiving his Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2018.

1. Overview at age 83 After rocky early years, I had a happy youth in a small town, and then stumbled through eight years at Harvard, emerging with little sense of what to do next, until I moved to Stanford where my research thrived. A minor project on adverse selection in auctions led me to…

“Don’t waste your time with things that aren’t going to matter” On 10 March 2021 we spoke to 2020 laureate Paul Milgrom via zoom on how his life has changed since the announcements in October, what unique item he has won at an auction and how he met his wife at a Nobel Prize banquet.…

“I encourage young people to just have a little bit of curiosity” We spoke to economist Robert Wilson on 3 February 2021 about teaching future laureates, collaborating with fellow laureate Paul Milgrom and dealing with failure. Economist Robert B. Wilson with his new Prize in Economic Sciences on 8 December, 2020 in Palo Alto. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Elena Zhukova What made…