Prize announcement

Announcement of the 2017 Prize in Economic Sciences by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 9 October 2017.

Interview about the awarded work

“He’s made economics more human”.

Immediately following the announcement, Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Member of the Economic Sciences Prize Committee, was interviewed by freelance journalist Joanna Rose regarding the 2017 Prize in Economic Sciences.

See a Video of the Interview

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MLA style: Prize announcement. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. Fri. 15 Feb 2019. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2017/prize-announcement/>

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