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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

Nobel Prize in Economics

Illustrative - A protester adds a portrait of a hostage to a wall of such posters during a rally for supporters and relatives of Israeli hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza since October 7, in Tel Aviv on December 23, 2023 (Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)
January 9, 2024, 2:49 pm
Nobel laureates pen plea to international organizations demanding action on hostages
Letter is accompanied by an updated, detailed report on hostage health based on medical records and testimony of released hostages about horrific conditions in Gaza
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Claudia Goldin speaks to a reporter on the phone in her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after learning that she received the Nobel Prize in Economics, Oct. 9, 2023 (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
October 9, 2023, 3:33 pm
Claudia Goldin wins Nobel Prize in Economics for work on women in the labor market
Jewish professor, only the 3rd female winner, hailed for research that ‘reveals the causes of change, as well as the main sources of the remaining gender gap’
By Johannes LEDEL
Economics Nobel prize winner Prof. Daniel Kahneman speaks at a conference in Jerusalem on June 20, 2013. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)
January 29, 2023, 11:50 pm
Israeli Nobel laureate says judicial overhaul plan would mark ‘the end of democracy’
Daniel Kahneman says he is more worried today about the future of Israel than he was during the 1973 Yom Kippur War: ‘It’s almost the end of the world’
By ToI Staff
Israeli-American winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Professor Daniel Kahneman, at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem. June 20, 2013 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
January 26, 2023, 8:45 am
Nobel laureate on judicial plans: ‘Not the Israel I want my grandkids to grow up in’
Economist Daniel Kahneman says overhaul marks ‘end of Israeli democracy,’ warns that in addition to financial harm, it will further isolate nation in academic world
By ToI Staff
Winners of the 2022 Novel Prize in Economics, Ben S. Bernanke, left, Douglas W. Diamond, center, and Philip H. Dybvig. (Nikas Elmehed/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
October 10, 2022, 2:04 pm
Nobel Prize in economics given to Bernanke, 2 US-based economists for work on banks
Award goes to ex-chair of US Federal Reserve, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig for research on financial crisis; in memoir, Bernanke recalled growing up as Jewish outsider
By AP
Winner of the Nobel prize for economics Joshua Angrist, left, speaks to a reporter with his granddaughter Bella, and wife Mira Angrist, from his home Monday, in Brookline, Massachusetts, October 11, 2021. (Josh Reynolds/AP)
October 12, 2021, 10:27 am
US-Israeli Nobel laureate missed phone call telling him he had won
Joshua Angrist, one of 3 winners of the economics prize, says he had to call Stockholm to confirm; plays down reports he left Israel over low wages
By Stuart Winer
Joshua Angrist (Screen capture: YouTube)
October 11, 2021, 4:08 pm
Maimonides in the classroom: The research that led Angrist to the Nobel
Much of the US-born economist’s work has focused on Israel’s education system, in particular its classroom sizes, which are based on a Talmudic theory
By ToI Staff
Israeli-American economist Joshua Angrist (Video screenshot)
October 11, 2021, 1:28 pm
Israeli-American Joshua Angrist among trio to win Nobel Prize in Economics
Professor awarded prize for his work on unintended experiments; taught at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University and at Harvard before his current position at MIT
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Paul R. Milgrom, professor at Stanford University, during an interview about winning the Nobel Prize in economics at his home in Palo Alto, California, October 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
October 13, 2020, 1:24 pm
Video shows prof alerting fellow Nobel winner with 2 a.m. door rap
Doorbell cam shows Stanford economist Paul Milgrom being informed of his win by colleague and neighbor Robert Wilson, who shared the 2020 prize with him
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Professor Paul Milgrom is interviewed at Cambridge University, November 2019 (Screen grab/YouTube)
October 12, 2020, 1:19 pm
American Jewish economist Paul Milgrom shares Nobel for auction theory work
Award given jointly to Michigan-born professor and US colleague Robert Wilson for their work understanding value and bidding
By Agencies and ToI Staff
The co-winners of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (L-R) Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer (Nobel institute)
October 14, 2019, 1:27 pm
Trio win Nobel Prize in economics for work on poverty
Michael Kremer, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo honored ‘for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty’; Kremer and Duflo are recent Tel Aviv U. award winners
By Agencies
Joshua Angrist (Screen capture: YouTube)
October 14, 2019, 9:55 am
Two Israelis among frontrunners for Nobel in economics
Joshua Angrist of MIT and Harvard’s Elhanan Helpman considered to be among favorites to take this year’s award, which will be announced Monday
By Helene DAUSCHY
(L-R) Per Stroemberg, Goeran K Hansson and Per Krusell announce the laureates of the Nobel Prize in Economics during a press conference at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on October 8, 2018. (AFP Photo/TT News Agency/Henrik Montgomery)
October 8, 2018, 2:49 pm
US duo William Nordhaus and Paul Romer win Nobel Economics Prize
Nordhaus, who has Jewish roots, honored for integrating climate change into growth analysis; Romer hailed for tech innovations, says he ignored calls thinking they were spam
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: US economist Richard Thaler after he was awarded the 2014 Global Economy Prize during the award ceremony in Kiel, northern Germany, June 22, 2014. (AFP Photo/Pool/Carsten Rehder)
October 9, 2017, 2:23 pm
Richard Thaler wins Nobel for work in behavioral economics
University of Chicago professor who worked closely with Israelis Tversky and Kahneman takes prize for applying psychological research to economic decision making
By AP
This Feb. 13, 2006 file photo shows then-US president George W. Bush, right, presenting the National Medal of Science to Dr. Kenneth J. Arrow, left, from Stanford University, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
February 23, 2017, 4:56 am
Nobel-winning economist Kenneth J. Arrow dies at 95
His wide-ranging work ‘fundamentally altered’ fields as diverse as elections, health insurance and the stock market
By AP
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