PM met with Nobel Prize Laureates

"Today within the IV Astana Economic Forum I have met with Nobel Prize Laureates in Economics Sir James Alexander Mirrlees, Robert A. Mundell, John Forbes Nash, Robert J. Aumann, Finn E. Kydland and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Roger Kornberg," K.Massimov posted on his blog.

Sir James Alexander Mirrlees is a Scottish economist and a winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (jointly with William Vickrey) for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information.

John Forbes Nash is an American mathematician who works in the sphere of game theory and differential geometry. He shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John C. Harsanyi for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games.

Robert A. Mundell is a professor of economics at Columbia University and the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1999 for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas.

Robert John Aumann is an American-Israeli mathematician and laureate of the Nobel Prize in economics in 2005 (jointly with Thomas C. Schelling) for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis.

Roger David Kornberg is an American biochemist, laureate of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, professor of structural biology at Stanford University.

Finn E. Kydland is a Norwegian economist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2004 for contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles.