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In co-production with the BBC, we are happy and proud to introduce a series of podcast episodes highlighting inspiring work done by members of future generations. The series hopes to showcast our future generation that is walking in the footsteps of the Nobel Prize laureates using innovative and new ways of thinking. ‘Generation Change’ is…

I was born in 1972 at the Port Royal hospital, the “baby factory” of Paris. I grew up with my parents, Violaine Duflo (a pediatrician) and Michel Duflo (a math professor) in Asnières, a western suburb of Paris. I went to the local public schools until grade 11, and transferred to Henri IV, a magnet…

An accidental economist: a brief history A series of accidents, mostly fortunate, made me the human being and economist that I am. It started with the accident of my birth, to a couple who were both economists. This, in my generation, was already a minor miracle – in the mid 1950s my mother somehow managed…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/PgekkKn7zmU Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from the Blue Hall at the Stockholm City Hall in Stockholm, Sweden on 10 December 2020. This year, the award ceremony was streamed. The laureates had received their medals and diplomas in their home countries due to the covid-19 pandemic.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ieuZUQRkZBU Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from the Blue Hall at the Stockholm City Hall in Sweden on 10 December 2021. (pdf)

Professor Peter Fredriksson delivering the presentation speech for the 2021 prize in economic sciences. © Nobel Prize Outreach, photo: Dan Lepp English Presentation Speech by Professor Peter Fredriksson, Member of the , Chair of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 10 december 2021. Your Majesties. Your Royal Highnesses.…

Swedish Presentationstal av professor Peter Fredriksson, ledamot av , ordförande i kommittén för Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne, 10 december 2021. Eders Majestäter. Eders Kungliga Högheter. Ärade Pristagare. Mina Damer och Herrar. Som samhällsforskare stöter vi ofta på viktiga frågor som ter sig väldigt svåra att besvara. En av dessa dök…

Artist: Stanislaw Zoladz Calligrapher: Marie A. Györi Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom   © The Nobel Foundation 2021

Artist: Stanislaw Zoladz Calligrapher: Marie A. Györi Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom   © The Nobel Foundation 2021

Artist: Stanislaw Zoladz Calligrapher: Marie A. Györi Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom   © The Nobel Foundation 2021