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Brian Duignan
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Brian Duignan is a senior editor at Encyclopædia Britannica. His subject areas include philosophy, law, social science, politics, political theory, and religion.
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Bengt Holmström Finnish economist who, with Oliver Hart, was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Economics for his contributions to contract theory. Starting in the late 1970s, Holmström and various colleagues undertook pioneering research on the design of employment contracts that are optimal (from…
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