Nobel Prize

Interview transcript [Paul Krugman] Hello. [Adam Smith] Hello. This is Adam Smith from the Nobel Foundation web site in Stockholm. Is that Paul Krugman? [PK] Yes it is. [AS] Congratulations on the award. Quite a time to be awarded the Prize for Economic Sciences. [PK] Yes.…

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I was born on December 18, 1951 in the New York City borough of Queens. My parents, Ernest and Lillian, were both public high school teachers of a subject that is probably no longer taught, called Secretarial Studies, which focused on typing and taking dictation via two methods of shorthand stenography, Pitman and Gregg. Their…

English 15 October 2012 has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2012 to Alvin E. RothHarvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, and Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, USA and Lloyd S. ShapleyUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA “for the theory of stable allocations and the…

Swedish 15 oktober 2012 har beslutat att utdela Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne år 2012 till Alvin E. RothHarvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA och Harvard Business School, Boston, MA USA och Lloyd S. ShapleyUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA “för teorin om stabila allokeringar och för utformning av marknadsinstitutioner…

Links to other sites Blog Videos Video lecture by Alvin E. Roth: What Have We Learned from Market Design. Rosenthal Memorial Lecture, Boston University, 2007. Video lecture by Alvin E. Roth: Market Failure and Market Design. Google Tech Talks, 2007. Review article Roth A. E. (2008) What have we learned from market design?, Economic…

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I was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 20 February 1948. My father Antonios was born in the village of Agros, in the Troodos mountains, a village in a valley surrounded by mountains on three sides and with an opening to the south overlooking in the distance the bay of Limassol. He was one of seven…

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