The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2006
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2006 was awarded to Edmund S. Phelps "for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy"
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