The professor emeritus of economics and 2025 Nobel winner spent the day on Brown’s campus, where he enjoyed visits with ...

Howitt joined Brown’s faculty in 2000 after teaching at the University of Western Ontario and the Ohio State University. He earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1973 after attending McGill ...

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Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt share the Nobel economics prize for work that underlines the importance of ...

Joel Mokyr GRD ’72 ’74, a Northwestern University professor who once declined an offer to teach at Yale, won the prize on ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recognized Howitt’s and Aghion’s research into forces that drive long-term economic ...

Joel Mokyr has long made the case against technophobia, including in the pages of Reason.

Chief executive of JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon, told the BBC he is “far more worried than others” about the possibility of a major market correction within the next six months to two years. The word of the ...

A quiet shift is transforming diet culture as more people embrace intuitive eating—a mindful approach that prioritizes listening to hunger and fullness cues over calorie counting or restriction.

This year’s Vijaydashami speech by Mohan Bhagwat was watched with keen interest by both Sangh supporters as well as its critics as one expected this to indicate the direction that Sangh is going to ...

Kautilya’s Arthashastra, an ancient Sanskrit treatise, has countless references to fines and regulations intended to maintain civic order: 12 pana for neglecting a field at the time of sawing, 24 pana ...