This year’s economics award reinforces a comforting but false story about democracy.

Fall has arrived in Scandinavia, which means Nobel Prize season is here. The start of October is when the Nobel committees get together in Stockholm and Oslo to announce the winners of the yearly ...

The Nobel Prize recognises achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace.

Here are the winners of the six Nobel Prizes awarded this year. By Derrick Bryson Taylor Every October, committees in Sweden and Norway name laureates in a variety of prizes related to science ...

Three economists were awarded the Nobel Prize Monday for their research into how the nature of institutions helps explain why some countries become rich and others remain poor.

In the 2013 book Why Nations Fail, Acemoglu and Robinson examined different economic outcomes during the European ...

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US-based academics Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson won the 2024 Nobel economics prize "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity", the Royal Swedish Academy ...

Jon Fosse delivers a speech in front of guests of the Nobel Prize Banquet in Stockholm in 2023 Another name to show up in last year’s predictions was Gerard Murnane. The Australian writer is ...

The Nobel Prize in chemistry included a U.S. scientist, David Baker, who along with Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, were ...

Since the Nobel Prizes were created in 1901, just 25 women have received awards in the sciences. This year, that number stayed the same: All seven laureates in physics, chemistry, and physiology ...