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Nobel Prize

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Professor Elinor 'Lin' Ostrom

Ostrom was best known for her studies of how local groups manage natural resources.

Reason Staff | 1.7.2021 6:00 AM

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Nobel Prize

Unlimited Growth and Climate Change Economists Win Nobel Prize

Paul Romer overturns limits-to-growth nonsense, and William Nordhaus projects climate change damages.

Ronald Bailey | 10.8.2018 1:45 PM

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Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz, Hugo Chavez, and the Return of Socialism: Podcast

Journalist and Soho Forum co-founder Gene Epstein on economists' romance with strongmen and his upcoming debate with Jacobin's Bhaskar Sunkara.

Nick Gillespie | 9.27.2018 1:30 PM

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Literature

V.S. Naipaul: 'Terrorists Can Fly a Plane, But What They Can't Do Is Build a Plane'

The Nobel laureate had a brilliant, sadly ignored insight that would have short-circuited the worst cultural and political reactions of the past 17 years.

Nick Gillespie | 8.13.2018 9:25 AM

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Ideas

The Applied Theory of Bossing People Around

Richard Thaler's prize isn't noble.

Deirdre McCloskey | 2.11.2018 6:00 AM

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History

The Peace Prize Winner Who Waged War

In 2009, Barack Obama acknowledged that the Nobel Peace Prize honor was aspirational. In 2017, it still is.

Ed Krayewski | 1.15.2017 7:00 AM

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Apocalypse

Future Nobel Laureate Warns: The Antichrist Is Coming!

Friday A/V Club: The Devil and Bob Dylan

Jesse Walker | 10.14.2016 10:40 AM

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'Bob Dylan Is the Shakespeare of Our Time'—Penn Jillette on the Nobel Prize Winner

Dylan has constantly changed, not out of some sense of desperate need to stay current or hip but out of a deep urge to explore himself and the world around him.

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 10.13.2016 11:18 AM

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Poverty

The Great Escape from Poverty

Newly minted economics Nobel laureate Angus Deaton worries crony capitalism will kill off economic growth.

Ronald Bailey | 12.23.2015 12:00 AM

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Nobel Prize

Documenting Humanity's Great Escape from Abject Poverty: Angus Deaton

The Economics Nobel Laureate worries that crony capitalism will kill off economic growth

Ronald Bailey | 10.16.2015 1:30 PM

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Angus Deaton: 2015 Economics Nobel Laureate

"We've seen a remarkable decrease over the past 20 years, and I do forecast that will continue."

Ronald Bailey | 10.12.2015 12:03 PM

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Nobel Peace Prize: In Tunisia Alone Is the "Arab Spring" Still Green

Here's hoping that the award will help safeguard Tunisia's nascent democracy.

Ronald Bailey | 10.9.2015 11:23 AM

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Greenhouse gases

Upcoming Paris U.N. Climate Change Conference Is a "Charade"

According to Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz

Ronald Bailey | 7.14.2015 12:46 PM

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Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize Winner Talks About Getting Hassled by TSA

Zenon Evans | 10.14.2014 2:15 PM

Energy efficiency

LED Lights Tempt Us to Use More, Not Less, Energy

Ronald Bailey | 10.10.2014 10:46 AM

Economics

It's Nobel Prize Season Again!

Why Israel Kirzner should win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Veronique de Rugy | 10.10.2014 10:30 AM

Nobel Prize

When Nobel Peace Laureates Meet

Malala Yousafzai tells Barack Obama what his drones are doing.

Jesse Walker | 10.10.2014 9:46 AM

Nobel Prize

Taste Is Personal: A Primer in Nobel Prize-Winning Literature

The subjective theory of value in action.

Michael Valdez Moses | 10.8.2014 3:30 PM

Science

Physics Nobel Prize to Inventors of Blue Diode Light Source

LED

Reason Staff | 10.7.2014 10:53 AM

Barack Obama

Friday Funnies: About That Nobel Peace Prize…

Chip Bok | 9.26.2014 7:00 AM

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White House Was Angered by Obama's Peace Prize, Which Still Haunts the Nobel Committee

Some committee members accused of being fawning, starstruck.

Lene Johansen | 5.21.2014 8:30 AM

History

MLK Jr.'s Children Fighting over Nobel Prize, Bible

Part of a series of legal battles

Reason Staff | 2.4.2014 6:45 PM

Edward Snowden

NSA Whistle-Blower Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

Nominated by two Norwegian politicians

Reason Staff | 1.29.2014 7:58 AM

Nobel Prize

Nobel-Winning Economist Dale Mortensen Dies at 74

Studied supply and demand in the job market

Reason Staff | 1.9.2014 5:30 PM

Nobel Prize

Nobel-Winning Author Doris Lessing Dies at 94

Author of The Golden Notebook

Reason Staff | 11.17.2013 11:10 AM

Russia

Nobel Laureates Urge Putin to Free Greenpeace Activists

30 detainees face up to 15 years in prison if convicted

Reason Staff | 10.17.2013 2:20 PM

Economics

Nobel Prize For Economics Awarded To Three Americans For Their Work on Asset Prices

Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller

Reason Staff | 10.14.2013 8:20 AM

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Was the Decision to Award the Nobel Peace Prize to Chemical Weapons Inspectors an Admission That Awarding Barack Obama Was a Mistake?

The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize laureate helped prevent a war agitated for by the 2009 laureate

Ed Krayewski | 10.11.2013 2:08 PM

Syria

Organization For the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons

Reason Staff | 10.11.2013 7:30 AM

Literature

Canadian Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize For Literature

Short story writer

Reason Staff | 10.10.2013 7:30 AM

Nobel Prize

Malala Yousafzai: Haven't Done Enough to Deserve Nobel Peace Prize

If a certain previous winner had such self-awareness

Reason Staff | 10.9.2013 12:50 PM

Science

Nobel Prize For Physics Awarded To Higgs and Englert

For their work on the Higgs boson

Reason Staff | 10.8.2013 8:10 AM

Vladimir Putin

Putin Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Presumably not by GLAAD

Reason Staff | 10.2.2013 3:30 PM

North Korea

Dennis Rodman Says He Deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for North Korea Outreach

Well, if they gave Obama one...

Reason Staff | 7.3.2013 8:52 AM

Economics

Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert Fogel Dead at 86

Renowned economic historian known for using quantitative analysis to study history

Reason Staff | 6.12.2013 8:28 AM

Nobel Prize

Ron Paul: Bradley Manning Deserves Nobel Peace Prize More Than Obama

J.D. Tuccille | 4.12.2013 7:35 PM

Chelsea Manning

Ron Paul: Bradley Manning More Deserving Than Obama of Nobel Peace Prize

Who isn't?

Reason Staff | 4.12.2013 3:10 PM

Nobel Prize

Crick's Nobel Prize Sells for $2.3 Million

Award given to discoverer of DNA goes to head of biomedical firm

Reason Staff | 4.11.2013 4:10 PM

IVF

Test-Tube Baby Pioneer Robert Edwards Dead at Age 87

Ronald Bailey | 4.10.2013 1:06 PM

Al Gore

How to Win a Nobel Peace Prize

Al Gore did it-you can too!

Jesse Walker | 10.12.2007 4:00 PM

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