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Gerald M. Edelman – Biographical
Biographical
Dr. Gerald M. Edelman was born on July 1, 1929 in New York City to Edward Edelman and Anna Freedman Edelman. His father is a practicing physician in New York. After his education in New York public schools, Edelman attended Ursinus College in Pennsylvania and received the B.S. degree, magna cum laude, in 1950. He…
morePress release
Press release
25 October 1972 has decided to award the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1972 , to John R Hicks, Oxford University, U K and Kenneth Arrow, Harvard University, USA for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory. The progress of the economic sciences has…
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Ragnar Bentzel of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In a couple of years, we shall be able to celebrate the centenary of a remarkable event in the history of economic science. In 1874, the French economist Leon Walras made an extremely important contribution to…
moreJohn R. Hicks – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in 1904 at Warwick, England, where my father was a journalist on a local newspaper. I was educated at Clifton College (1917-22) and at Balliol College, Oxford (1922-26), an expensive education financed by mathematical scholarships. Thus, during my school days, and in my first year at Oxford, I was a mathematical specialist;…
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