This volume is a collection of the Nobel lectures delivered by the prizewinners in the economic sciences, together with their biographies, portraits and the presentation speeches at the award ceremonies for the period 1996-2000. Each Nobel lecture is based on the work for which the laureate was awarded the prize. New biographical data of the laureates, since they were awarded the Nobel Prize, are also included. Below is a list of the prizewinners during the period 1996-2000 with a description of the works for which they won their prizes: J.A. Mirrlees and W. Vickrey (1996) - for their...

Presents the Nobel winners in economic sciences, from 1991-1995: R.H. Coarse (1991), for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy; G.S. Becker (1992) for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour; R.W. Fogel and D.C. North (1993), for having renewed research in economic history in applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change; J.C....