Economic Sciences

Banquet speech

Robert C. Merton’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1997 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Myron Scholes, my colleague and dear friend of some thirty years, and I are deeply grateful to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for this ultimate honour. But for us this is also a bittersweet moment…

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Curriculum Vitae

Birth: 5 July 1936, Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Civil Status: Married, 1961-1993, two children     Education 1941-54 Primary School and Douglas Ewart High School Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland 1954-57 Edinburgh University MA Mathematics and Natural Philosophy 1957-62 Cambridge University, Trinity College 1958 and 1959: Mathematical Tripos, Parts II and III 1963 Cambridge University Ph.D. in…

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Banquet speech

James A. Mirrlees’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1996 Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Nobel Prizes are about discovery and creation. It is the excitement of new discovery that they celebrate. It is wonderful to be a part of that celebration. Economists are accustomed, perhaps surprisingly, to think about the…

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