Professor Emeritus of Economics Daniel Friedman was among 18 esteemed economists in the inaugural class of fellows of the Economic Science Association (ESA). The group includes two Nobel laureates.

Randall Morck of the Alberta School of Business says economists too often regard people as "dynamic, stochastic optimization ...

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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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Nobel laureate Lars Peter Hansen, a leading expert at the forefront of economic thinking and asset-price modeling, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang this month ...

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The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize for Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to three researchers who have shown how technological and scientific innovation, coupled to market ...

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