The world’s newest Nobel laureate takes a bow.
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Goldin is showing the world that economics is about more than just finance.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 was awarded to Harvard professor Claudia Goldin.
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The Harvard professor was awarded the Nobel prize for economics for her work on women in the workforce.
Left to right: Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig.
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Until Diamond and Dybvig published key papers in the early 1980s, it wasn’t well understood that perfectly healthy banks could be brought down by panicking depositors.
Not going or gone: Nobel prize winners Robert Wilson (L) and Paul Milgrom (R).
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Auctions theory first revolutionised the sale of the mobile phone spectrum; now it is doing the same for the carbon market.