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French ANNONCE DU PRIX NOBEL DE LA PAIX 2021 a décidé de décerner le prix Nobel de la paix 2021 à Maria Ressa et Dmitrij Muratov pour leurs efforts en faveur de la liberté d’expression, une condition essentielle pour la démocratie et la paix durable.  Ressa et Muratov sont récompensés pour leur combat courageux pour…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gj7_oN8QEiQ Watch Abdulrazak Gurnah read the excerpt from By the Sea. Excerpt from By the Sea I speak to maps. And sometimes they say something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it…

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Interview, February 2022 Photo: Andrew Brodhead, Stanford University. “You need to have trust to be able to do good work” Nobelprize.org interviewed Guido Imbens on 7 February 2022. We spoke with him about how free time can provide space to think and the importance of friendship and trust for a successful collaboration. Telephone interview, October 2021…

Interview, March 2022 Joshua D. Angrist Photo courtesy of the MIT Department of Economics Nobelprize.org interviewed Joshua Angrist on 21 March 2022. He told us about his aversion to studying as a youth, thoughts on teaching and friendship with co-laureate Guido Imbens. Telephone interview, October 2021 https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bh_CXgAdou8 “My lack of preparation is evidence that I…

Interview, February 2022 David Card. Photo: Jean Smith/UC Berkeley “Most people who are doing economics who are going to be very successful are pretty nerdy” On 9 February 2022, nobelprize.org spoke to economist David Card about his first job, how he copes with failure and diversity in science. Nobel Minds https://www.youtube.com/embed/vI9d4d0ogEY Five of the 2021…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/nUTRasDkXK0 Announcement of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 11 October 2021. https://www.youtube.com/embed/yYhnyjQs7sw “It’s totally revolutionised the way we do empirical work” Immediately following the announcement, Eva Mörk, member of the Committee for…