This year’s Nobel Prize for economics is unusually pertinent. It honors three scholars who, in different ways, have tried to ...

Human history has clearly shown that societies that dare to protect academic freedom, encourage different thinking and honor ...

Joel Mokyr, born in Leiden in 1946, is the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University and ...

This year’s economics Nobel focuses on the role of innovation and creative destruction, while last year’s highlighted the ...

Joel Mokyr, an economic historian who grew up in Israel, says news that he won Nobel Prize in Economics stunned him; credits ...

This year's economics Nobel Prize winners make it clear that the UK's path of high taxation will destroy growth, writes Paul ...

Research conducted by the recent Nobel laureates in economics suggests that Nvidia will not remain the largest publicly ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics, awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, is more than an academic honour. It reminds us that lasting prosperity depends less on what we can ...

Decades before ChatGPT, two economists modelled ‘creative destruction’ while a third found out why societies fail. In 2025, ...

Some readers may still recall my having mentioned that I majored in Germanic literature when I was in university. And within this great literary tradition — one of the most prominent in the world — ...

What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.” That was the mordant comment of Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria’s first prime ...