This question was first addressed in 1937 by Ronald Coase, the winner of the 1991 Nobel prize for economics and the intellectual forefather of both of this year’s winners.

早在1937年罗纳德•科斯便首次提出了这个问题，这位1991年度诺贝尔经济学奖得主也是今年两位获奖者的精神导师。

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Robert Fogel at the University of Chicago, a Nobel prize-winner in economics, reckons that improved medical care and technology are only part of the answer.

诺贝尔经济学奖得主、芝加哥大学的Robert Fogel觉得医疗保健的改善和科技发达只是部分答案。

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Since 1969 when the Nobel Prize in Economics was established, the annual decision-making on who will be the winner (s) has come under the close attention of economists around the world.

自1969年设立诺贝尔经济学奖以来，每年一度的评奖结果备受经济学界关注。

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Edward Prescott, a winner of the Nobel prize for economics, blames these transatlantic differences on tax.

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Edmund Phelps, winner of the 2006 Nobel prize for economics for his work on savings and labour markets, argues that the structural explanation for Europe's slower growth rates masks deeper problems with dynamism.

ECONOMIST: Why can't Europe's economies catch up with America?

The current champion of that idea is Robert Mundell, winner of 1999's Nobel Prize for Economics and a professor at Columbia University who advised the European Union for 30 years, right up through the adoption of the euro in 1999.

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