2008

Banquet speech

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am sure that my first thought, when I received the call telling me that I would receive the Prize in Economic Sciences, was the same as the first thought of many previous recipients – namely, to wonder which of my colleagues had…

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Interview

Transcript from an interview with Paul Krugman, 2008 Laureate in Economic Sciences, on 6 December 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. So Paul Krugman, welcome to Stockholm … Paul Krugman: Thank you. … and congratulations on the award of the Bank of Sweden…

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Banquet speech

Your majesties, your Royal Highnesses, ladies and gentlemen: Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and I would like to thank those responsible for this great honor and to make some observations about what the Green Fluorescent Protein (or GFP) teaches us. We are deeply grateful that the Nobel committee and the Royal Academy of…

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