Economics as history: Assessing the 2024 Nobel Prize

Why are some countries rich and others poor? Finding the answer to this vital question would deserve a Nobel Prize. Indeed, that is the motivation of this year’s economic award, awarded to Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (AJR), with most of the credit going …

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and US actress Jennifer Lawrence teamed up with producer Justine Ciarrocchi ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and US actress Jennifer Lawrence teamed up with producer Justine Ciarrocchi and director Sahra Mani to make 'Bread & Roses,' a documentary about the plight of women in the Taliban's Afghanistan

Free speech under a “strongman” government: A Nobel laureate’s warning

WASHINGTON – As America braces for what increasingly looks like the era of a strongman under the next term of Donald Trump, a Nobel laureate and defender of the free press made a call to arms against the efforts by authoritarians to curtail free speech. …

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Hidankyo Begins Crowdfunding Round to Attend Nobel Award Ceremony

Newsfrom Japan Society Nov 15, 2024 21:33 (JST) Tokyo, Nov. 15 (Jiji Press)--The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, said Friday that it has started raising money via crowdfunding to cover expenses to travel to …

African Innovators Shine at The Earthshot Prize Hosted in Cape Town

In a landmark moment for the African continent, The Earthshot Prize held its third iteration on African soil for the first time. This year, two of the three African finalists emerged victorious, each securing the coveted £1 million prize to scale their …

Nihon Hidankyo launches crowdfunding to send delegates to Nobel ceremony in Oslo

A Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors that won this year's Nobel Peace Prize has launched a crowdfunding drive to raise funds to send delegates to the award ceremony. Officials from Nihon Hidankyo said on Friday that the goal is to collect …

'Really rude shock' coming to Trump voters on inflation: Nobel Prize-winning economist

New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said that voters who believed President-elect Donald Trump would do a better job of handling inflation than Vice President Kamala Harris are in for a "really rude shock." In …

Han Kang is first South Korean writer to win 2024 Nobel Prize in literature with ‘The Vegetarian’

Written by South Korean author Han Kang and translated by British writer Deborah Smith, “The Vegetarian” masterfully explores the lure of volatile human desire by challenging South Korean societal and sexual norms. Published in Korean in 2007 and …

Nobel Peace Prize was turned down by Queen Elizabeth on multiple occasions; here's the reason she gave for not wanting ...