Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 8, 1977

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 8, 1977

I was born into an upper-middle class family in a village in the South of Sweden in April, 1899. It was a large family with seven children, a large house and a home which was very hospitable and open to friends and relatives. There was a private school which was not very particular about the...

Born on 23 June 1907, I was brought up in the City of Bath in England. At school - Lambrook School (1917-1921) and Malvern College (1917-1926) - my education was concentrated on the Latin and Greek languages. At the university - Oriel College, Oxford (1926-1930) - I continued my classical...

Advanced information on the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2004

Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott have made fundamental contributions to the research area known as macroeconomics. In a highly innovative way, the Laureates have analyzed the design of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles. Their work has not only transformed economic...

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 11, 1974

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, March 17, 1975

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 13, 1976

I was born July 31, 1912, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the fourth and last child and first son of Sarah Ethel (Landau) and Jeno Saul Friedman. My parents were born in Carpatho-Ruthenia (then a province of Austria-Hungary; later, part of inter-war Czechoslovakia, and, currently, of the Soviet Union). They...