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Michael Spence
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Michael Spence

Scientist · born November 7, 1943

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Andrew Michael Spence is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate.

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  1. ~23Named Rhodes Scholarship1966
  2. ~38Received the John Bates Clark Medal1981
  3. ~58Received the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2001

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