Economic Sciences

Prize presentation

https://www.youtube.com/embed/yyQ4oFjs7B4 Watch a video clip of the 2018 Laureate in Economic Sciences, William D. Nordhaus, receiving his Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2018.

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Prize presentation

https://www.youtube.com/embed/H_TLMFIgbYY Watch a video clip of the 2018 Laureate in Economic Sciences, Paul M. Romer, receiving his Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2018.

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Biographical

1. Overview at age 83 After rocky early years, I had a happy youth in a small town, and then stumbled through eight years at Harvard, emerging with little sense of what to do next, until I moved to Stanford where my research thrived. A minor project on adverse selection in auctions led me to…

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Interview

“Don’t waste your time with things that aren’t going to matter” On 10 March 2021 we spoke to 2020 laureate Paul Milgrom via zoom on how his life has changed since the announcements in October, what unique item he has won at an auction and how he met his wife at a Nobel Prize banquet.…

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Interview

“I encourage young people to just have a little bit of curiosity” We spoke to economist Robert Wilson on 3 February 2021 about teaching future laureates, collaborating with fellow laureate Paul Milgrom and dealing with failure. Economist Robert B. Wilson with his new Prize in Economic Sciences on 8 December, 2020 in Palo Alto. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Elena Zhukova What made…

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Prize presentation

https://www.youtube.com/embed/4HMYxlnc7pw Watch a video clip of the 2020 Laureate in Economic Sciences, Robert B. Wilson, receiving his Prize medal and diploma from Swedish Honorary Consul General Barbro Osher during a ceremonial presentation in Palo Alto, California, USA, on 8 December 2020.

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Prize presentation

https://www.youtube.com/embed/XJjc1D0bVos Watch a video clip of the 2020 Laureate in Economic Sciences, Paul R. Milgrom, receiving his Prize medal and diploma from Swedish Honorary Consul General Barbro Osher during a ceremonial presentation in Palo Alto, California, USA, on 8 December 2020.

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Biographical

I first saw light in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, at the dawn of World War II. My earliest memories are of the warm climate, skiing in winter, trout fishing in summer, and a fragrant alfalfa field outside my window. How did I get from an alfalfa field in New Mexico in the 1940s to Stockholm…

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The Nobel Prize award ceremony takes place at the Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden, on 10 December every year – the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. At the ceremony, the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and the Prize in Economic Sciences are awarded to the Nobel Laureates. This year, the award ceremony…

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