Yale University economics professor William Nordhaus. Nordhaus died on Oct. 30, 2026, after a battle with brain cancer, according to Yale News. He was 85. NEW HAVEN — William Nordhaus, a Yale University professor emeritus and a 2018 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics,…
A lot of people have been puzzled by why something as intuitively obvious as household and business decisions being forward looking should have been discovered anew, and how their models could possibly help cope with the kind of energy crisis…
Nobel laureate Anne Carson’s work makes me wonder: how can someone who thinks God isn’t available to us be so haunted by him? Last month, the Swedish Academy awarded Canadian classics professor and poet Anne Carson the 2026 Nobel Prize in…
Previous winners of the $1 million Genesis Prize include Gal Gadot, Itzhak Perlman, and Steven Spielberg Public nominations have opened for the 2027 Genesis Prize, which has been dubbed the ‘Jewish Nobel’. The present holder of the prestigious worldwide prize, which comes…
JACKSONVILLE, AL – Research co-authored by Jacksonville State University Associate Professor of Computer Science Dr. Arup Ghosh has received the 2026 USEC Test of Time Award, recognizing the continued relevance and impact of research examining parental controls and teen online safety. The…
William D. Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics, Emeritus, whose influential work as an economist transformed a field and who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics for his pioneering work on the economics of climate change, died on Oct. 30 following a battle…
In a free, unhampered market, the economy would be subject to various shocks but it is difficult to envisage a phenomenon of regular boom-bust cycles. According to Rothbard, Before the Industrial Revolution in approximately the late 18th century, there were no…
In the rarefied world of economics, some of the field’s best minds figured it was a matter of when, not if, Claudia Goldin would win the Nobel Prize. She is only the third woman to win the economics prize and…
Read more stories from the 2023 Women & Power issue. The ingenuity of Harvard economist Claudia Goldin is her innate ability to analyze the gender gap in a way that everyone gets it. Which is how I found myself talking to the…
Eugen Dimant, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Practice in Behavioral & Decision Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Psychology Today Blog: Norms and Behavior Change There was a problem adding your email address. Please try again. Eugen Dimant, Ph.D., is…
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