Despite the estimated cost savings, IDC's Griliches is optimistic about the router but warns that its performance is still untested.

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Paul Samuelson, one of the younger winners, and Mr Becker, who was a friend of Griliches, want the committee to take old age explicitly into account.

ECONOMIST: Nobel prize in economics

Last year, many economists hoped that Zvi Griliches, a noted econometrician who was unquestionably deserving of the prize, and was suffering from a long illness, would win.

ECONOMIST: Nobel prize in economics

Innovations are remarkably similar in some of their basic features as described by economist-statistician Zvi Griliches many years ago in his study of the dispersion of new hybrid corn seed varieties.

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