On Wednesday, Dec. 3, the U.S. State Department announced that the building housing the U.S. Institute of Peace in downtown ...

Here & Now ‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Joel Mokyr, Nobel Prize winner and economist at Northwestern University, who also ...

Ahead of the Nobel Prize ceremony in Sweden, the Brown University economist discussed his research, its lessons for today, ...

Tech breakthroughs yielded two centuries of prosperity. Technology must be harnessed widely and understood closely. Yet, the ...

Europe has overregulated and punishes failure too severely, hindering the next wave of innovation, the French economist said, ...

SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son told South Korea’s president that future artificial super-intelligence could be thousands of ...

In a keynote conversation, the economist said reporters have a key role to play in probing Western financial institutions and ...

This week, Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize winner for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, is visiting Estonia. In an interview with ...

Sir Paul told BBC News that high visa fees are deterring early-career researchers, who are instead being welcomed by the UK's ...

Half of the prize goes to an economic historian, Professor Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University, whose research has focused on the centuries leading up to the industrial revolution. Until the second ...

Philippe Aghion, who won this year’s economics prize for his theory of “creative destruction”, will deliver an address to more than 20,000 property professionals that centres on the role innovation ...

For Prof. Joel Mokyr, the life of a Nobel Prize winner remains grounded in the everyday: reading the morning news, engaging in riveting conversations with students, listening to classical music in his ...