AMHERST — Labor economist David Card, co-recipient of the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and professor of ...

"I have believed since I was a teenager that the miseries and indignities of the last years of life are superfluous," he ...

Economist Claudia Goldin finds it largely comes down to societal expectations of how much men should do at home.

Daniel Kahneman was an authority on how humans make decisions and the imperfect reasoning they often employ. Recently, it was ...

In his inaugural address, President Trump said his “proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.” But critics ...

Then, Professor Wolff interviews economics professor Shahram Azhar of Bucknell University on his recently published critique of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics. In the second half of the show, ...

Card was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in economics for providing “new insights about the labor market.” He shared the prize with MIT economics professor Joshua Angrist, who earned his Ph.D. from ...

Romer received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel “for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis.” He shared the prize with ...

If Andrea Ghez had listened to her critics, one of the galaxy’s greatest mysteries might yet remain unsolved. The UCLA astronomer won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for proving the existence of a ...