Nobel Prize

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Honored Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen Let me begin by thanking the committee for granting this year’s prize in Economic Sciences to me, my colleague Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller. I have learned much over the years from Lars’s work and from listening to his…

As the children of immigrants, my parents were raised in Scandinavian Minnesota. My mother, Verna Ecklund, was a university student for only one year but my father, Thomas Peter Mortensen, graduated from the School of Forestry at the University of Minnesota in 1936. They were married shortly after and moved to Enterprise, Oregon, where I…

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Swedish 13 oktober 2008 har beslutat att utdela Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne år 2008 till Paul KrugmanPrinceton University, NJ, USA “för hans analys av handelsmönster och lokalisering av ekonomisk verksamhet” Internationell handel och ekonomisk geografi Frågor om handelsmönster och lokalisering har alltid stått i centrum för den ekonomiska debatten.…

English 13 October 2008 has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008 to Paul KrugmanPrinceton University, NJ, USA “for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity” International Trade and Economic Geography Patterns of trade and location have always been key issues in the…

  The Laureate Paul Krugman, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, USA   Popular science literature Krugman, P (2000): “Geography and Trade”, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA Krugman, P & Obstfeld M (2009): “International Economics: theory and policy”, 8th edition, Pearson. 712 pp.   Selected scientific articles Krugman, P (1979) Increasing Returns, Monopolistic Competition, and International Trade,…

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Artist: Lena Cronström Calligrapher: Annika Rücker Book binder: Ingemar Dackéus Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom