Royal Swedish Academy Of Sciences News
-
Paul Krugman, a Princeton University economist and Nobel laureate, said tighter fiscal policy risks leading to “substantially increased unemployment” and called for higher government spending to sustain the U.S. economic expansion.
-
James M. Buchanan, the U.S. economist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for applying the principles of economic self-interest to understand why politicians do what they do, has died. He was 93.
-
Discoveries that may lead to prevention and better treatment of rheumatoid arthritis earned two Americans and a Swede the Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
-
Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on matching supply and demand for everything from single men and women to organ donors and their recipients.
-
Two U.S. scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering receptors, proteins that receive and transmit messages to cells, and are the basis for as much as half of all today’s medicines.
-
A U.S. and a French scientist won the Nobel Prize in Physics for finding ways to manipulate quantum particles without changing their nature, work that paved the way for a new generation of precision clocks and speedy computers.
-
Peter A. Diamond ’s Nobel Prize in economics may weaken Senate Republican opposition to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor’s Federal Reserve Board nomination, improving his chances of joining the central bank.
-
An Israeli scientist won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for changing the prevailing views about the atomic structure of matter with his discovery of quasicrystals.
-
New York University’s Thomas J. Sargent and Princeton University’s Christopher A. Sims shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their work in sorting out cause from effect in the economy and policy.
-
Peter A. Diamond , Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for research into the difficulties of matching supply and demand, particularly in the labor market.
|
|
Royal Swedish Academy Of Sciences Photos
Most Popular on Bloomberg
|
| |
Rate this Page