The 1936 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Argentina’s Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas went for $950,000 last March, while the 1935 Nobel for Physics given to James Chadwick for his discovery of a neutron sold for $329,000 in June.
A manuscript of Kuznets’ speech is included in the auction of the prize. He won the award for his “interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure.” He died in 1985 at the age of 84. The prize is being sold by his son.
