Nobel Prize

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…

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 13, 1976 Inflation and Unemployment Pdf 637 kB

  Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 11, 1975 Mathematics in Economics: Achievements, Difficulties, Perspectives I am deeply excited by that high honour which fell on my lot and I am happy for the opportunity to appear here as a participant of this honorable series of lectures. In our time mathematics has penetrated…

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 11, 1975 Concepts of Optimality and Their Uses Pdf 684 kB

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 11, 1974   The Pretence of Knowledge The particular occasion of this lecture, combined with the chief practical problem which economists have to face today, have made the choice of its topic almost inevitable. On the one hand the still recent establishment of the Nobel Memorial Prize…

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, April 27, 1973 The Mainspring of Economic Growth In my Theory of Wages, first published in 1932, there is a chapter (VI) entitled “Distribution and Economic Progress”. It was the first to be written of the theoretical chapters in that book; so it is in a sense the…