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Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

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Sep 11, 2026

JRHOST
46:34
We'll finish up with Mays Moore after these liars.
Jen PsakiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
46:39
Today, 15 recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics released a letter in support of the president's Build Back Better plan, including four Nobel Prize winners recently highlighted in an open letter.
Jen PsakiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
46:52
Seven, 17, excuse me, Nobel laureates who have conveyed this will help address inflation.
Joe BidenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
46:58
13, 13, excuse me, 14 Nobel laureates in economics said they'll actually bring down the cost and reduce the deficit.
Emily RaskHOST
12:40
The lost cash and the lost ticket come out of two different accounts in your head, and only one of them feels like it's about the movie.
Emily RaskHOST
12:48
Thaler called this mental accounting, and it's part of what won him the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2017.
Emily RaskHOST
12:55
Retailers lean exactly on this quirk.
Emily RaskHOST
12:58
Picture yourself buying a $1,000 refrigerator.
speaker_0NARRATOR
5:35
Okay, very welcome to the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden, where the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony takes place every year on the tenth of December.
Rob YoungHOST
5:44
Simon Johnson won the Nobel Prize for Economics with two colleagues in twenty twenty-four for work on how nations became prosperous.
Rob YoungHOST
5:53
He's an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.
Simon JohnsonGUEST
5:57
States.New technologies do two things.
Tyler GardnerHOST
5:09
Bob Merton is, intellectually speaking, one of the most formidable people on this list.
Tyler GardnerHOST
5:16
He shared the Nobel Prize in Economics with Myron Scholes in 1997 for his work on options pricing.
Tyler GardnerHOST
5:23
He has spent decades at the intersection of financial theory and institutional practice.
Tyler GardnerHOST
5:29
And he has thought more carefully than almost anyone about the question that actually matters to most people listening to this podcast right now.

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Tyler GardnerHOST
17:22
Do not ignore inflation and have a contingency plan for how you will deal with a serious adverse event, because at some point, you will.
Tyler GardnerHOST
17:33
Thinker number eight, Bob Shiller.
Tyler GardnerHOST
17:36
Shiller won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2013.
Tyler GardnerHOST
17:39
And if you've ever heard the phrase we just used, the CAPE ratio, or cyclically adjusted price to earnings, that is Shiller's.
Atossa Araxia AbrahamianGUEST
4:33
My name is Atusa Araxia Abrahamian, and I'm a journalist and author living in New York.
Atossa Araxia AbrahamianGUEST
4:38
In around 2009, 2010, Paul Romer, the economist who would go on to win the Nobel Prize for Economics, proposed a kind of schema of the charter city.
Atossa Araxia AbrahamianGUEST
4:48
And at the core of this idea was there are lots of places in the world that have bad rules, and these bad rules and regulations are holding these countries back.
Atossa Araxia AbrahamianGUEST
4:57
And they are also preventing the people in these countries from thriving, from having good jobs, from making good wages, et cetera, et cetera.
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
5:42
Okay, very welcome to the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden, where the Nobel Prize Award ceremony takes place every year on the 10th of December.
Rob YoungHOST
5:51
Simon Johnson won the Nobel Prize for Economics with two colleagues in 2024 for work on how nations became prosperous.
Rob YoungHOST
6:00
He's an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.
Simon JohnsonGUEST
6:06
New technologies do two things.
Andy TemteHOST
1:19
Now, back in March of 2025, in an episode on cognitive bias, I introduced Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and Richard Thaler.
Andy TemteHOST
1:29
Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for work he did with Tversky on how people make decisions when the outcome is uncertain.
Andy TemteHOST
1:39
Thaler won the same prize in 2017.
Andy TemteHOST
1:43
In that episode back in 2025, I also mentioned Thaler's book with Cass Sunstein called Nudge.
Andy TemteHOST
2:36
Simon wasn't an economist.
Andy TemteHOST
2:38
He earned his doctorate in political science and spent 52 years at Carnegie Mellon teaching administration, psych, and eventually computer science.
Andy TemteHOST
2:48
But in 1978, he won the Nobel Prize in economics anyway.
Andy TemteHOST
2:54
Why? Accepted economic theory in Simon's era made sweeping assumptions about what buyers and sellers know.
Chuck TerharkHOST
48:41
White Sox.
Sean McPhersonHOST
48:42
In October of 2022, Ben Bernanke was co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his research on banks and financial crises.
Sean McPhersonHOST
48:52
What job did Bernanke hold from 2006 to 2014? Fed chair? Yep, that's correct.
Sean McPhersonHOST
48:58
Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Andrea RappaportHOST
8:03
And lo and behold, this story comes from Chicago.
Andrea RappaportHOST
8:07
Where else? In 1995, a man named Robert Lucas won the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Andrea RappaportHOST
8:15
But guess what? Back in 1988, Mr.
Andrea RappaportHOST
8:20
Robert Lucas went through a divorce.
David PakmanHOST
38:28
If I find information on a random directory or the David Pakman Show David Pakman dot com.
David PakmanHOST
38:57
Today, I will be speaking with Darren Acemoglu, the institute professor of economics at MIT and a co-winner of the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
David PakmanHOST
39:11
His new book is What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity.
David PakmanHOST
39:17
A very timely discussion, I would say, at this point where there is there's this sort of tension, in fact, within the Democratic Party.

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