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elle organisa d’innombrables réunions pacifistes et le triomphe de sa vie fut qu’elle éveilla la conscience d’Alfred Nobel, l’inventeur de la dynamite, et le convainquit, pour réparer le mal qu’il avait fait avec sa dynamite, de fonder le prix Nobel de la paix et de l’entente internationale. Elle

Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite. When his brother Ludvig died in France, a newspaper mistakenly printed an obituary about Alfred instead of Ludvig. As a result, Alfred had the unusual experience of reading his own obituary. To his dismay, the focal point of the piece was the destruction brought about through his invention of dynamite. Dev

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Finally, two years after he’d completed the paper, The Quarterly Journal of Economics accepted it and in 1970 published “The Market for ‘Lemons’: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism.” Akerlof’s article went on to become one of the most cited economics papers of the last fifty years. In 2001, it earned him a Nobel Prize.