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The Nobel Prize winners have a lesson for us all

I'm the former director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The Nobel winners show strong patent systems directly fuel economic growth.

Fortune · Jan 8

How this year’s Nobel winners changed the thinking on economic growth

What makes some countries rich and others poor? Is there any action a country can take to improve living standards for its citizens? Economists have wondered about this for centuries. If the answer to the second question is yes, then the impact on people’s lives could be staggering.

The Conversation · Oct 14, 2025

The 2025 Nobel economics prize honours economic creation and destruction

Three economists working in the area of “innovation-driven economic growth” have won this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

The Conversation · Oct 14, 2025

Trio Wins Economics Nobel For Work On Tech-driven Growth

The Nobel prize in economics was awarded on Monday to American-Israeli Joel Mokyr, France's Philippe Aghion and Canada's Peter Howitt for work on technology's impact on sustained economic growth.

International Business Times · Oct 13, 2025

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt win 2025 Nobel Prize for Economics

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt win Nobel Prize for Economics 'for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction'.

Euronews · Oct 13, 2025

Cast of Bread: Where are they now, as actress Jean Boht dies?

One of the stars of the Liverpool-set 1980s TV sitcom Bread, Jean Boht, has passed away

Evening Standard · Sep 14, 2023

Where Bread stars are now – from soap success to Hollywood fame and tragic deaths

The show first aired on May 1, 1986

Liverpool Echo · Jun 8, 2022