Swedish 9 oktober 2017 har beslutat utdela Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne 2017 till Richard H. Thaler University of Chicago, IL, USA “för hans bidrag till beteendeekonomi” Att integrera ekonomi med psykologi Richard H. Thaler har utvecklat analysen av ekonomiskt beslutsfattande med psykologiskt välgrundade antaganden. Genom att undersöka konsekvenserna av…

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In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank) established this prize in memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. Here are some facts and figures regarding The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, awarded from 1969 to 2023. Number of prizes in economic sciences 55 prizes in economic sciences…

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded 55 times to 93 laureates between 1969 and 2023. Click on the links to get more information. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of…

English 12 October 2009 has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2009 to Elinor Ostrom Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons” and Oliver E. Williamson University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, “for his analysis of economic governance,…

I was born in Superior, Wisconsin on September 27, 1932 as the second child of Scott and Lucille Williamson. Both of my parents had been high school teachers but my father left teaching when he married my mother and joined my grandfather, Oliver E. Dunn, in the family real estate business. My father was a…

Telephone interview, October 2015 “You have to understand what makes people tick” Telephone interview with Professor Angus Deaton following the award of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, 12 October 2015. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief…

I was born in 1937, in Yakima, Washington, the oldest child of Robert Emerson Lucas and Jane Templeton Lucas. My sister Jenepher was born in 1939 and my brother Peter in 1940. My parents had moved to Yakima from Seattle, to open a small restaurant, The Lucas Ice Creamery. The restaurant was a casualty of…

English 10 October 1995 has decided to award the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1995, to Professor Robert E. Lucas, Jr., University of Chicago, USA, for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy.…

The Scientific Contributions of Robert E. Lucas, Jr. October 1995 During the 1970s macroeconomics was rapidly and thoroughly transformed: the rational expectations hypothesis was developed and applied, an equilibrium theory of business cycles emerged, and the problems in macroeconometric evaluation of economic policy and their solutions were clarified. This evolution is mostly due to the…