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No Prosperity Without Economic and Political Liberty
Three American economists win Nobel Economics Prize for showing how free markets and democratic governance engender prosperity.
Ronald Bailey | 10.17.2024 1:15 PM
Stiglitz's The Road to Freedom Under Scrutiny
Joseph Stiglitz thinks redistribution and regulation are the road to freedom—he’s wrong.
Ilia Murtazashvili | 6.9.2024 7:00 AM
Libertarian History/Philosophy
Jennifer Burns: Why Milton Friedman Matters More Than Ever
The biographer of the Nobel laureate says he made us "free to choose" in areas far beyond economics.
Nick Gillespie | 12.20.2023 4:29 PM
Vernon Smith: Adam Smith's Relevance, Jimmy Carter's Deregulation, and the Fed's Biggest Mistake
"The greatest thing that ever happened to me was to be born in a free country of modest means and to have opportunities," says the Nobel Prize–winning economist.
Nick Gillespie | 5.10.2023 11:00 AM
The Answer to Population Decline Is More Immigration
Politicians' go-to fixes like child tax credits and federal paid leave are known for creating disincentives to work without much impact on fertility.
Veronique de Rugy | 2.23.2023 12:01 AM
Julian Assange Extradition Decision the Latest Blow to Freedom of the Press
Either everybody gets to enjoy journalistic freedom, or it will turn into glorified public relations work for the powers-that-be.
J.D. Tuccille | 12.13.2021 7:00 AM
Natural Experiments Make the Case for Liberty
One of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in economics inadvertently created a pro-liberty methodology.
John Hood | 10.14.2021 3:30 PM
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Bans Private Businesses From Mandating Vaccines for Workers
Plus: A dangerous misunderstanding about what caused America's opioid overdose epidemic, a look at this year's Nobel Prize winners, and more...
Eric Boehm | 10.12.2021 9:30 AM
Professor Elinor 'Lin' Ostrom
Ostrom was best known for her studies of how local groups manage natural resources.
Reason Staff | 1.7.2021 6:00 AM
Unlimited Growth and Climate Change Economists Win Nobel Prize
Paul Romer overturns limits-to-growth nonsense, and William Nordhaus projects climate change damages.
Ronald Bailey | 10.8.2018 1:45 PM
Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz, Hugo Chavez, and the Return of Socialism: Podcast
Journalist and Soho Forum co-founder Gene Epstein on economists' romance with strongmen and his upcoming debate with Jacobin's Bhaskar Sunkara.
Nick Gillespie | 9.27.2018 1:30 PM
V.S. Naipaul: 'Terrorists Can Fly a Plane, But What They Can't Do Is Build a Plane'
The Nobel laureate had a brilliant, sadly ignored insight that would have short-circuited the worst cultural and political reactions of the past 17 years.
Nick Gillespie | 8.13.2018 9:25 AM
The Applied Theory of Bossing People Around
Richard Thaler's prize isn't noble.
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey | 2.11.2018 6:00 AM
The Peace Prize Winner Who Waged War
In 2009, Barack Obama acknowledged that the Nobel Peace Prize honor was aspirational. In 2017, it still is.
Ed Krayewski | 1.15.2017 7:00 AM
Future Nobel Laureate Warns: The Antichrist Is Coming!
Friday A/V Club: The Devil and Bob Dylan
Jesse Walker | 10.14.2016 10:40 AM
'Bob Dylan Is the Shakespeare of Our Time'—Penn Jillette on the Nobel Prize Winner
Dylan has constantly changed, not out of some sense of desperate need to stay current or hip but out of a deep urge to explore himself and the world around him.
Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 10.13.2016 11:18 AM
The Great Escape from Poverty
Newly minted economics Nobel laureate Angus Deaton worries crony capitalism will kill off economic growth.
Ronald Bailey | 12.23.2015 12:00 AM
Documenting Humanity's Great Escape from Abject Poverty: Angus Deaton
The Economics Nobel Laureate worries that crony capitalism will kill off economic growth
Ronald Bailey | 10.16.2015 1:30 PM
Angus Deaton: 2015 Economics Nobel Laureate
"We've seen a remarkable decrease over the past 20 years, and I do forecast that will continue."
Ronald Bailey | 10.12.2015 12:03 PM
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Nobel Peace Prize: In Tunisia Alone Is the "Arab Spring" Still Green
Here's hoping that the award will help safeguard Tunisia's nascent democracy.
Ronald Bailey | 10.9.2015 11:23 AM
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Upcoming Paris U.N. Climate Change Conference Is a "Charade"
According to Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz
Ronald Bailey | 7.14.2015 12:46 PM
Nobel Prize Winner Talks About Getting Hassled by TSA
Zenon Evans | 10.14.2014 2:15 PM
LED Lights Tempt Us to Use More, Not Less, Energy
Ronald Bailey | 10.10.2014 10:46 AM
It's Nobel Prize Season Again!
Why Israel Kirzner should win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Veronique de Rugy | 10.10.2014 10:30 AM
When Nobel Peace Laureates Meet
Malala Yousafzai tells Barack Obama what his drones are doing.
Jesse Walker | 10.10.2014 9:46 AM
Taste Is Personal: A Primer in Nobel Prize-Winning Literature
The subjective theory of value in action.
Michael Valdez Moses | 10.8.2014 3:30 PM
Physics Nobel Prize to Inventors of Blue Diode Light Source
LED
Reason Staff | 10.7.2014 10:53 AM
Friday Funnies: About That Nobel Peace Prize…
Chip Bok | 9.26.2014 7:00 AM
White House Was Angered by Obama's Peace Prize, Which Still Haunts the Nobel Committee
Some committee members accused of being fawning, starstruck.
Lene Johansen | 5.21.2014 8:30 AM
MLK Jr.'s Children Fighting over Nobel Prize, Bible
Part of a series of legal battles
Reason Staff | 2.4.2014 6:45 PM
NSA Whistle-Blower Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize
Nominated by two Norwegian politicians
Reason Staff | 1.29.2014 7:58 AM
Nobel-Winning Economist Dale Mortensen Dies at 74
Studied supply and demand in the job market
Reason Staff | 1.9.2014 5:30 PM
Nobel-Winning Author Doris Lessing Dies at 94
Author of The Golden Notebook
Reason Staff | 11.17.2013 11:10 AM
Nobel Laureates Urge Putin to Free Greenpeace Activists
30 detainees face up to 15 years in prison if convicted
Reason Staff | 10.17.2013 2:20 PM
Nobel Prize For Economics Awarded To Three Americans For Their Work on Asset Prices
Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller
Reason Staff | 10.14.2013 8:20 AM
Was the Decision to Award the Nobel Peace Prize to Chemical Weapons Inspectors an Admission That Awarding Barack Obama Was a Mistake?
The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize laureate helped prevent a war agitated for by the 2009 laureate
Ed Krayewski | 10.11.2013 2:08 PM
Organization For the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons
Reason Staff | 10.11.2013 7:30 AM
Canadian Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize For Literature
Short story writer
Reason Staff | 10.10.2013 7:30 AM
Malala Yousafzai: Haven't Done Enough to Deserve Nobel Peace Prize
If a certain previous winner had such self-awareness
Reason Staff | 10.9.2013 12:50 PM
Nobel Prize For Physics Awarded To Higgs and Englert
For their work on the Higgs boson
Reason Staff | 10.8.2013 8:10 AM
Putin Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Presumably not by GLAAD
Reason Staff | 10.2.2013 3:30 PM
Dennis Rodman Says He Deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for North Korea Outreach
Well, if they gave Obama one...
Reason Staff | 7.3.2013 8:52 AM
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert Fogel Dead at 86
Renowned economic historian known for using quantitative analysis to study history
Reason Staff | 6.12.2013 8:28 AM
Ron Paul: Bradley Manning Deserves Nobel Peace Prize More Than Obama
J.D. Tuccille | 4.12.2013 7:35 PM
Ron Paul: Bradley Manning More Deserving Than Obama of Nobel Peace Prize
Who isn't?
Reason Staff | 4.12.2013 3:10 PM
Crick's Nobel Prize Sells for $2.3 Million
Award given to discoverer of DNA goes to head of biomedical firm
Reason Staff | 4.11.2013 4:10 PM
Test-Tube Baby Pioneer Robert Edwards Dead at Age 87
Ronald Bailey | 4.10.2013 1:06 PM
How to Win a Nobel Peace Prize
Al Gore did it—you can too!
Jesse Walker | 10.12.2007 4:00 PM