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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced that the 2018 Nobel Prize for Economics goes to economists William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer for designing “methods that address some of our ...

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As I prepared to deliver the commencement address at the University of Chicago’s convocation in June, I experienced a great deal of stress, and not simply about my performance. I had some concerns as ...