Economic Sciences

Banquet speech

Harry M. Markowitz’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1990 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to express my deepest thanks to the Nobel Foundation for the honor you do us, on behalf of the three of us who are here tonight and on behalf of hundreds of others…

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Nobel Lecture

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 7, 1989 Econometrics and the Welfare State 1. Introduction Some of you here in this distinguished audience, and perhaps many of my colleagues who are not present, might say that the title I have chosen for this lecture is a strange and artificial construction. What has the…

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Banquet speech

Trygve Haavelmo’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1989 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I should like to keep my own person in the background in this connection, overwhelmed as I am by the honour that has fallen upon me. My admiration for their wisdom and foresight should go to those…

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Curriculum Vitae

Born: December 13, 1911, in Skedsmo, Norway     Education 1930 Examen artium (secondary school) 1933 Cand. oecon. (undergraduate degree) in Political Economy, University of Oslo 1946 Dr.phil., University of Oslo     Positions and appointments 1933 – 38 Research Assistant, Institute of Economics, University of Oslo 1938 – 39 Lecturer in Statistics, University of…

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Banquet speech

Maurice Allais’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1988 (in French) Majestés, Altesses Royales, Chers Collègues et Amis, Mesdames et Messieurs, Je suis profondément honoré par le Prix Nobel d’Economie qui vient de m’être décerné, en fait la plus haute distinction que puisse recevoir un scientifique. Quand je parcours la liste des savants prestigieux…

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Curriculum Vitae

  Born in Paris May 31, 1911, Paris, France Education 1931-1933 Ecole Polytechnique, ranked first on graduation 1934-1936 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Paris 1949 University of Paris, Faculty of Science, Doctor-Engineer Academic appointments 1944 – Professor of Economics, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Paris 1944-1970 Director, Group of Economic and Social Research, Paris 1946…

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