1969

Banquet speech

Jan Tinbergen’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1969 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I feel that I should speak in the name of three entities, if I may say so. First of all in the name of all economists, that it looks as if from now…

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Article

“If You Desire Peace, Cultivate Justice” by Juan Somavia Director-General of the International Labour Organization 7 May 2002 In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 1969, the Nobel Committee referred to the motto enshrined in the foundations of the ILO’s original building in Geneva, “Si vis pacem, cole justitiam”…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor Ivar Waller, member of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Elementary particle physics which is now so vigorous was still in its infancy when Murray Gell-Mann in 1953 published the first of the papers which have been honoured with this years Nobel Prize in physics. The physicists were,…

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Biographical

Born 1903, The Hague, Netherlands Education 1929, Leyden University, Doctor of Physics     Academic appointments 1933 Professor at the Netherlands School of Economics, teaching various subjects; fulltime from 1956 onwards, when subject became Development Programming Non-academic offices 1929-1945 Statistician for Business Cycle Research, Central Bureau of Statistics 1936-1938 Expert, temporarily attached to League of…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor Erik Lundberg of the Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In the past forty years, economic science has developed increasingly in the direction of a mathematical specification and statistical quantification of economic contexts. Scientific analysis along these lines is used to explain such complicated economic processes as economic…

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Biographical

I was born in Oslo, March 3, 1895, as son of the gold- and silversmith, Anton Frisch, and his wife, Ragna Fredrikke Kittilsen, who has had a great impact on my general outlook and view on life. I was first married in 1920 to Marie Smedal. We had an only child, Ragna, who was married…

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