Abstract The 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to David Card “for his empirical contributions labor economics” and Joshua Angrist Guido Imbens their methodological the analysis causal relationships”. We survey these three laureates, discuss how insights transformed modern practice applied microeconomics. By emphasizing research design formalizi...

Quo Vadis, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences? The so-called Economics is not one of the original Prizes according to testament A. B. Nobel. Although it has been target various critics since its inception 1969, become most prestigious economic award. paper summarizes more than 50 years history this award, including focus laureates, and asks - sometimes provocative questions about perspectives sci...

The season of the Nobel awards and the ensuing ceremonials is upon us. As the current laureates prepare to graciously stand in line before the crowned heads of Sweden and Norway, it’s an appropriate moment to reflect on what the prize has come to mean, and whether it still serves a useful purpose in today’s world. Although the Nobel Prizes are held in high esteem by the general public the world...

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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Thomas Südhof, James Rothman, and Randy Schekman for their pioneering studies of membrane vesicle trafficking. In systems as diverse as the human brain and baker’s yeast and with approaches from mouse genetics and electrophysiology to enzymology to powerful genetic screens, they have unraveled this process, illuminating basic cell bi...