Economic Sciences

Press release

German 9. Oktober 2002 hat beschlossen, den von der Schwedischen Reichsbank in Erinnerung an Alfred Nobel gestifteten Preis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften des Jahres 2002 aufzuteilen zwischen& Daniel Kahneman Princeton University, USA „für das Einführen von Einsichten der psychologischen Forschung in die Wirtschaftswissenschaft, besonders bezüglich Beurteilungen und Entscheidungen bei Unsicherheit“ und Vernon L. Smith George Mason University,…

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Swedish 9 oktober 2002 har beslutat att Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne för år 2002 delas mellan Daniel Kahneman Princeton University, USA ”för att ha infört insikter från psykologisk forskning i ekonomisk vetenskap, särskilt beträffande bedömningar och beslut under osäkerhet” och Vernon L. Smith George Mason University, USA ”för att…

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English 9 October 2002 has decided that the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2002, will be shared between Daniel Kahneman Princeton University, USA “for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty” and Vernon L. Smith George Mason University,…

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Award ceremony speech

Professor Lars-Göran Nilsson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2002 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Presentation Speech by Professor Lars-Göran Nilsson of the , December 10, 2002. Translation of the Swedish text. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Economic…

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Biographical

Early yearsI was born in Tel Aviv, in what is now Israel, in 1934, while my mother was visiting her extended family there; our regular domicile was in Paris. My parents were Lithuanian Jews, who had immigrated to France in the early 1920s and had done quite well. My father was the chief of research…

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Other resources

The Laureates Daniel Kahneman http://www.princeton.edu/~psych/PsychSite/fac_kahneman.html Vernon L. Smith http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/ facultybios/smith.html   Behavioral and Experimental Economics Kagel, J.H. and A.E. Roth, (red.), “Handbook of Experimental economics”, Princeton University Press, 1995. Kahneman, D. and A. Tversky (1979), “Prospect theory: An analysis of decision under risk”, Econometrica 47, 263-291. Kahneman, D. and A. Tversky (red.), “Choices, Values and…

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