The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998 was awarded to Amartya Sen "for his contributions to welfare economics"
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