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...

I was born on December 26, 1940, in Glens Falls, New York, to Mathilde Helwig Prescott and William Clyde Prescott. My mother's parents were German immigrants. My mother was forced to drop out of high school at age 16 to care for her younger brother and sister after the death of their mother....

Nobel Prize Lecture December 8, 2004

Nobel Prize Lecture, December 8, 2004

In the winter of 1968, Sten Thore, who was then a professor of economics at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (abbreviated NHH in Norwegian), where I was finishing my three undergraduate years, made me an offer that would change dramatically the path I was to take for...

Interview with the 2004 Laureates in Economics, Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott, December 11, 2004. Interviewers are Professor Karl-Gustaf Lofgren and Johanna Astrom, post graduate student, Umea University.

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