Nobel Prize

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1929 The Earlier History of Vitamin Research When the present century began, animal nutrition was being viewed too exclusively from the standpoint of energy requirements. The fundamental pioneer work of Rubner and its later extension to human subjects in the remarkable enterprise of Atwater, Benedict, Rosa, and others in the United…

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 8, 1982 The Process and Progress of Economics Pdf 316 kB

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 8, 1981 Money and Finance in the Macro-Economic Process Pdf 1002 kB

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 8, 1980 Some Economic Scenarios for the 1980’s Pdf 642 kB

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, March 17, 1975   The Equality Issue in World Development My first impulse, when brooding over what topic I should choose for this lecture, was that I should turn toward some specific problem, selected from the field where I am at present working. But then I felt that…

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 8, 1979 The Economics of Being Poor Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters. Most of the world’s poor people earn their living from agriculture, so…

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 8, 1979 The Slowing Down of the Engine of Growth Let me begin by stating my problem. For the past hundred years the rate of growth of output in the developing world has depended on the rate of growth of output in the developed world. When the…

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 8, 1978 Rational Decision-Making in Business Organizations Pdf 657 kB

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 8, 1977 1933 and 1977 – Some Expansion Policy Problems in Cases of Unbalanced Domestic and International Economic Relations Pdf 175 kB

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 8, 1977 The Meaning of “Internal Balance” I. It is a special privilege for me on this occasion to have my name associated with that of Professor Bertil Ohlin. By the younger generation of economists we are no doubt both regarded as what in my country are…