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2018 Nobel Prize Laureates in Economics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded 2018 Alfred Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to William D. Nordhaus “for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis” and Paul M. Romer “for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis.” Nordhaus and Romer have designed...
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2016
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016 to Oliver Hart, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA and Bengt Holmström, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, “for their contributions to contract...
Nobel Prize in Economics winner Angus Deaton turns 70 today
Angus Deaton, born in Scotland but a longtime professor at Princeton, has won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Economics "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare." Deaton is well-known for a broad body of work rather than for a handful of breakthrough papers. But it is possible to understand his output as...