Joel Mokyr won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for decades of work on the causes of the Industrial Revolution and the drivers of growth-inducing technological development. Mokyr’s work is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three economists have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics, for “having explained innovation-driven economic growth”, according ...

Joel Mokyr, a Dutch-born professor of economics and history at Northwestern University, is one of three researchers awarded the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for explaining how new products ...

One leg hanging over the arm of his chair, Prof. Joel Mokyr wore a bright blue button-down and a leather jacket, a can of Diet Coke in hand. Outside his Kellogg office, Lake Michigan lay glassy, the ...

Beloit College is celebrating a significant achievement as Joel Mokyr, a former Upton Scholar, has been awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Mokyr, a professor at Northwestern University, ...

Robert Gordon does not believe in a bright American future. “We’re mired in the muck with productivity growth as slow as it’s ever been in US history,” the economics professor said. “Everywhere I look ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott L. Montgomery is a geologist who writes about energy issues. A screen shows (L-R) American-Israeli Joel Mokyr, France's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A screen displays an image of Nobel Prize medal, ahead of the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences at the Royal ...

A screen displays an image of Nobel Prize medal, ahead of the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden October 13, 2025.