Economic Sciences
Brief Autobiographical Sketch Delivered at the Nobel Banquet, 1970
Banquet speech
by 1970 Prize Winner in Economics Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The dream of any scholar has for me come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace. Imagine then how my subject of economics–the oldest of the arts,…
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Paul A. Samuelson – Biographical
Biographical
“In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last ‘generalist’ in economics,” wrote Paul Anthony Samuelson, Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “with interests that range from mathematical economics down to current financial journalism. My real interests are research and teaching… ” His work in economic theory has…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Assar Lindbeck, Stockholm School of Economics Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentleman. One of the salient features of the development of economics during the last decades is the increased degree of formalization of the analytical techniques brought about partly with the aid of mathematical methods. We can perhaps…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Erik Lundberg of the Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In the past forty years, economic science has developed increasingly in the direction of a mathematical specification and statistical quantification of economic contexts. Scientific analysis along these lines is used to explain such complicated economic processes as economic…
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