Nobel Prize

Professor Philip Dybvig, co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, co-authored a seminal paper on how deposit insurance can help prevent financial crises.

The award can boost sales for a little known author, and can also highlight a field of research.

UC Berkeley Economist David Card reflects on his now Nobel Prize winning research.

The celebrated author worked to make the American publishing industry more inclusive.

Stiglitz discusses the themes and recommendations contained in his latest book: People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent.

There’s a new report out on climate change science and it’s bleak. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of thousands of scientists, finds the earth’s temperature has risen 1 degree Celsius — or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit — since pre-industrial times. And if we don’t keep warming under 2 degrees? Well, the oceans could rise an […]

The work of William Nordhaus focused on climate change, while Paul Romer examined tech factors in calculating economic growth.

Previous Nobel winner Robert Shiller talks about Thaler's intolerance of bad economic research and why psychology is so important.

They're trying to give him the Nobel prize for literature — but he's blowin' in the wind (sorry).

Contract theory is all about putting incentives in the right place