Joel Mokyr won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for decades of work on the causes of the Industrial Revolution and the drivers of growth-inducing technological development. Mokyr’s work is ...

Robert Gordon does not believe in a bright American future. “We’re mired in the muck with productivity growth as slow as it’s ever been in US history,” the economics professor said. “Everywhere I look ...

Nobel laureate and economics and history Prof. Joel Mokyr answered students’ queries about topics including technology, economic growth and human progress in a Q&A session Tuesday evening. “This is ...

Ahead of the opening of the 17th Asian Leadership Conference (ALC), Mick Mulvaney, former White House Chief of Staff; Jenny ...

There is one very strange aspect about South Korea: it is committing ‘demographic suicide.’ South Korea is a country that ...

Joel Mokyr, a Dutch-born professor of economics and history at Northwestern University, is one of three researchers awarded the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for explaining how new products ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research into the impact of innovation on economic growth and how new technologies replace older ...

STOCKHOLM -- Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research into the impact of innovation on economic growth and how new technologies ...

A screen displays an image of Nobel Prize medal, ahead of the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden October 13, 2025.