Nobel Prize and minimum wages
THE Nobel Prize for Economics for the year 2021 awarded to David Card for his contributions to scholarship on minimum wages has vindicated trade unions, labour and human rights advocates…
The dark side of Nobel prizewinning research
Think of the Nobel prizes and you think of groundbreaking research bettering mankind, but the awards have also honoured some quite unhumanitarian inventions such as chemical weapons, DDT and lobotomies.…
For Middle East, Nobel prize a blessing or curse for Obama?
Jimmy Carter received the Nobel peace prize nearly a quarter of a century after he helped broker the 1978 Camp David accord between Israel and Egypt. Barack Obama received it…
War and the prize: how some Nobel laureates turn away from peace
Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi is the latest in a long line of Nobel Peace Prize laureates to disappoint many of those who once applauded her, and probably won't…
A shared Nobel Peace Prize?
On February 25, 2021 the joint statement of the DGMOs of India and Pakistan regarding the restoration of the 2003 ceasefire along the LOC went into effect. Various questions are…
Hiroshima survivor to accept Nobel Peace Prize for nuclear watchdog
Setsuko Thurlow was 13 years old and standing only a mile away from ground zero when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in…
Hiroshima survivor to accept Nobel Peace Prize for nuclear watchdog
Setsuko Thurlow was 13 years old and standing only a mile away from ground zero when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in…
Nobel insights
On October 14, 2024, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (known more as the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences), awarded to Daron…
Nobel for noble Ms Ardern
On a quiet Friday March 15, 2019 afternoon, 28-year-old Australian Brenton Tarrant, armed with automatic weapons, opened indiscriminate fire at close quarters on men, women and children inside the Al…
Climate economics Nobel may do more harm than good
There are many reasons humanity has failed to rein in climate change despite decades of dire warnings. The inertia of an energy system overwhelmingly powered by oil, gas and coal;…
