Nobel Prize

16 October 1986 THIS YEAR’S ECONOMICS PRIZE AWARDED FOR A SYNTHESIS OF THE THEORIES OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DECISION-MAKING (PUBLIC CHOICE) has decided to award the1986 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to Professor James McGill Buchanan, George Mason University, Virginia, USA, for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingemar Ståhl of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Laureate of this year, James Buchanan of George Mason University, has been awarded the Prize for his development of the contractarian and constitutional foundations for the theory of economic and political decision-making. This…

  Born: October 3, 1919, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA Civil Status: Married (to Ann Bakke Buchanan on 5 October 1945), no children     Education 1948 Ph. D., University of Chicago 1941 M. S., University of Tennessee 1940 B. A., Middle Tennessee State College     Current position and title General Director, Center for Study of…

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has resolved that the Nobel Peace Prize for 1986 should be awarded to the author, Elie Wiesel. It is the Committee’s opinion that Elie Wiesel has emerged as one of the most important spiritual leaders and guides in an age when violence, repression and racism continue to characterise the world. Wiesel is a messenger to…

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Presentation Speech by Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the Norwegian Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is today exactly 50 years since the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the German public figure and pacifist, . That particular award was one of the most controversial ever made. The newly established Nazi…

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1986 jointly to Stanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini for their discoveries of “growth factors”. Summary The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded for discoveries which are of fundamental importance for…

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