Swedish 13 oktober 2014 har beslutat att utdela Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne år 2014 till Jean Tirole Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, Frankrike “för hans analys av marknadsmakt och reglering”. Jean Tirole är en av vår tids mest inflytelserika nationalekonomer. Han har gjort viktiga teoretiska forskningsinsatser på en rad områden,…

English 13 October 2014 has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2014 to Jean Tirole Toulouse 1 Capitole University, France “for his analysis of market power and regulation”. Jean Tirole is one of the most influential economists of our time. He has made important theoretical…

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2014 Jean Tirole is one of the most influential economists of our time. He has made important theoretical research contributions in a number of areas, but most of all he has clarified how to understand and regulate industries with a few powerful firms. Tirole is awarded this year’s prize for…

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Swedish 11 oktober 2010 har beslutat att utdela Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne år 2010 till Peter A. Diamond Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, Dale T. Mortensen Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA and Christopher A. Pissarides London School of Economics and Political Science, Storbritannien “för deras analys av…

English 11 October 2010 has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2010 to Peter A. Diamond Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, Dale T. Mortensen Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA and Christopher A. Pissarides London School of Economics and Political Science, UK “for their…

English Information for the Public Traditionally, economic theory has relied on the assumption of a “homo œconomicus”, whose behavior is governed by self-interest and who is capable of rational decision-making. Economics has also been regarded as a non-experimental science, where researchers – as in astronomy or meteorology – have had to rely exclusively on field…

Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information Nationalekonomisk teori har traditionellt byggt på antagandet om en “homo œconomicus” vars handlande styrs av egenintresse och rationalitet. Ekonomi har också setts som en icke-experimentell vetenskap, där forskare – liksom inom astronomi och meteorologi – varit begränsade till data “från fältet”, dvs. direkta observationer av verkligheten. Bilden har dock förändrats under de…