Prize Announcement

Announcement of The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel by Professor Gunnar Öquist, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 13 October 2008. Introduction by Professor Bertil Holmlund, followed by a presentation on the prize-awarded work by Professor Peter Englund, and a telephone press conference with Economics Laureate Paul Krugman.

Following the announcement, Professor Peter Englund, Secretary of the Economics Prize Committee, is interviewed by senior editor Simon Frantz about the 2008 Economics Laureate.