Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize Conversations They showed how new technology can drive sustained growth Listen to the 2025 economic sciences laureates talk about their Nobel Prize-awarded work and life learnings in this podcast conversation with Adam Smith. Podcast transcript : Why did I want to do economics? To influence thinking, but well beyond the profession. Of course,…

Interview with the 2025 economic sciences laureate Philippe Aghion on 6 December 2025 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How were you as a child?  Philippe Aghion: I had very creative parents. My father wanted to do social revolution in Egypt, and was close to the surrealism movement. He was close to Tristan Tzara, who…

Interview with the 2025 economic sciences laureate Peter Howitt on 6 December 2025 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How were you as a child?  Peter Howitt: I was a very happy child, I’m told, for most of my upbringing in a small city in Ontario, Canada. When I became a teenager and went to…

, economic sciences laureate 2024, was joined by nine students from all over the world for a conversation on the topic of being a scientist. Acemoglu gave his best advice for finding great collaborators, spoke about the future of AI and shared how he has overcome obstacles during his scientific career. 

Interview with the 2025 laureate in economic sciences Joel Mokyr on 6 December 2025 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How were you as a child?  Joel Mokyr: My childhood really is divided into two parts. The first nine years I lived in the Netherlands in a town called Utrecht in the centre of the…

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Interview with the 2024 economic sciences laureate James A. Robinson, recorded on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How did your upbringing shape you?  James A. Robinson: I think my upbringing probably did shape me, although it’s hard to unpack it. My father was an itinerant engineer who actually started off working…

Interview with the 2024 economic sciences laureate Simon Johnson, recorded on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What was your childhood like and how did it shape you?  Simon Johnson: I grew up in Sheffield in the north of England. I come from a family that has been in Sheffield for a…

Video from the award ceremony Watch a video clip of Joel Mokyr receiving his prize medal and diploma during the award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2025.

Video from the award ceremony Watch a video clip of Philippe Aghion receiving his prize medal and diploma during the award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2025.