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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…

  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…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Kerstin Hall of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, We have all been small infants who have grown tall. It is growth hormone, released from the pituitary gland, which regulates growth after birth. Lack of this hormone during infancy results in growth…

I was born in Brooklyn in 1922. Both my mother and father were Russian Jewish emigrants who came to America in the early 1900’s. My father was a tailor and my mother, a housewife. Though of limited education themselves, they instilled in me the values of intellectual achievement and the use of whatever talents I…