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Nobel Prize

What Lies Behind Abhijit Banerjee’s Nobel

Maitreesh Ghatak

The research model used by him and Esther Duflo can provide a corrective to the top-down approach of centralised policymaking

Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke: Flight Makers

An inventive Polish in great form and a colossal Austrian are the new Nobel laureates in literature

Misadventures of Dismal Scientists?

The origin, evolution and politics of the Economics Nobel Prize

Raj Chetty: Class Apart

A Harvard professor of economics, his views have found immense appeal among policymakers in the US

An Economist Against GDP Worship

The work of Nobel laureate Angus Deaton arms us for the fight against poverty and reminds us that Economics should focus on welfare more than wealth

Physics Nobel Prize for LEDs

LEDs use semiconductor materials and very little energy is lost to heat. The result is a lifespan of about 100 times that of an incandescent light

The Free Spirit

The words of Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) made South Africa a less dangerous place—and literature an argument for freedom

Jagdish Bhagwati: Noble if not Nobel

Seven reasons why this economist did not win the Prize

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