Economic Sciences

Biographical

Paul Krugman’s is a lone voice, telling things as they are and debunking Washington policies that are neither compassionate nor conservative.”– Paul Samuelson Paul Krugman has at least three jobs: he is professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and perhaps his best-known job an…

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Illustrated information

  Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2008 to Paul Krugman “for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity”. Small World – Big Cities What are the consequences of free trade and globalization? What…

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Press release

English 15 October 2007 has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007 jointly to Leonid Hurwicz University of Minnesota, MN, USA, Eric S. Maskin Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA and Roger B. Myerson University of Chicago, IL, USA “for having laid the foundations of…

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Interview

Your questions to Roger B. Myerson After the 2007 Nobel Prize announcements, visitors to Nobelprize.org had the possibility to submit questions to the 2007 Nobel Laureates. Here, Roger B. Myerson, answers a selection of the questions. Question: It seems that regulation theory and applied regulation in general always tries to capture and control some market…

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