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Economic elite welcome two new members

Economic elite welcome two new members

This week, Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström won the highly coveted ‘Nobel Prize’ in Economics for their contributions to contract theory, joining the ranks of other economic superstars John Nash (known as the inspiration for the Hollywood blockbuster A Beautiful Mind), Paul Krugman (known for his sometimes amusing New York

A brief history of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

A brief history of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

The 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was announced on October 15 and won by a trio of financial economists: Eugene Fama, Robert Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen. Fama is the mastermind behind the ‘efficient-market hypothesis’, which will be familiar to all who have taken at least a first-year