Presentation Speech by Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the Norwegian Your Majesties, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1993 to Nelson R. Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for…

Frederik Willem de Klerk was born in Johannesburg on March 18, 1936. He is the son of Senator Jan de Klerk, a leading politician, who became minister in the South African government. His brother Willem is a liberal newspaperman and one of the founders of the Democratic Party. F.W. de Klerk graduated with a law…

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12 October 1993 THIS YEAR’s PRIZEWINNERS ARE LEADING FIGURES WITHIN THE FIELD OF “NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY” has decided to award the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 1993 jointly to Professor Robert W. Fogel, University of Chicago, USA, and Professor Douglass C. North, Washington University, St. Louis, USA,…

Presentation Speech by Professor Lennart Jörberg of the Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Robert Fogel and Douglass North have been awarded this year’s Prize in Economics for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional…

I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia. Although they arrived in New York penniless, my parents scraped together enough savings to establish the first of several small businesses just after I was born.…

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Omble mariné sur lit de radis aux œufs de saumon Vinaigrette de miel à la Raineri Croissant Nobel Faux-filet de renne aux chanterelles des forêts Terrine de choux au beurre de mûres fraîches Mousse de pommes de terre et emincé de salsifis Glace Nobel en voile Sorbet aux fraises des bois et son parfait vanille…