Interview transcript On behalf of the Nobel e-Museum, I have the pleasure of welcoming this year’s winners of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The winners are Professor George Akerlof from the University of California Berkeley; Michael Spence, Stanford University; and Professor Joseph Stiglitz from…

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Interview transcript Professor Robert Merton, very welcome to this interview. It’s a pleasure to have you with us. Today during your speech you outlined something that I found very interesting. You were saying that households and individuals have had, over the last couple of years, to take much more serious economic decisions…

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Interview transcript [Paul Krugman] Hello. [Adam Smith] Hello. This is Adam Smith from the Nobel Foundation web site in Stockholm. Is that Paul Krugman? [PK] Yes it is. [AS] Congratulations on the award. Quite a time to be awarded the Prize for Economic Sciences. [PK] Yes.…

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I was born on December 18, 1951 in the New York City borough of Queens. My parents, Ernest and Lillian, were both public high school teachers of a subject that is probably no longer taught, called Secretarial Studies, which focused on typing and taking dictation via two methods of shorthand stenography, Pitman and Gregg. Their…

Links to other sites Blog Videos Video lecture by Alvin E. Roth: What Have We Learned from Market Design. Rosenthal Memorial Lecture, Boston University, 2007. Video lecture by Alvin E. Roth: Market Failure and Market Design. Google Tech Talks, 2007. Review article Roth A. E. (2008) What have we learned from market design?, Economic…