Economic Sciences
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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Ragnar Frisch – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in Oslo, March 3, 1895, as son of the gold- and silversmith, Anton Frisch, and his wife, Ragna Fredrikke Kittilsen, who has had a great impact on my general outlook and view on life. I was first married in 1920 to Marie Smedal. We had an only child, Ragna, who was married…
moreTable listing the Prize in Economics Sciences 1969–2006
Year Laureate Field Prize Citation 1969 Ragnar Frisch Oslo University Jan Tinbergen The Netherland School of Economics Econometrics For having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes 1970 Paul A. Samuelson Massachusetts Institute of Technology Partial and General Equilibrium Theory For the scientific work through which he has developed static…
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