Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (in Swedish Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is a prize awarded each year for oustanding intellectual contributions in the field of economics. The award was instituted by the Bank of Sweden (the world's oldest central bank) at its 300th anniversary in 1969. Although it was not one of the awards established in the will of Alfred Nobel, the economics laureates receive their diploma and gold medal from the Swedish monarch at the same December 10 ceremony in Stockholm as the Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature. The amount of money awarded to the economics laureates is also equal to that of the other prizes.

External links

• Laureates at the Nobel foundation
• Winners of the Prize in Economics
• History of the prize and its controversy
• A critique of a perceived bias of the prize toward the Chicago School
• Beautiful Mind, Ugly Deception: The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics Science article by Yves Gingras