Nobel Prize Conversations How important is the money in your pocket? Try buying a sandwich with an IOU and a promise to come back and pay, and you’ll soon understand. Christopher Sims’ research explores topics from the meaning of money to his prize-awarded work on cause and effect in the macroeconomy. In this conversation, conducted…

Nobel Prize Conversations Should you be able to buy a kidney? Economic sciences laureate Alvin Roth would call that, and other taboo exchanges, repugnant transactions. Roth pioneered ways of describing outlier markets where prices don’t work, explaining why you can’t buy a job at Google, acceptance at Yale – or a human organ. This Nobel…

Nobel Prize Conversations Belonging to a community is wonderful, but for economic sciences laureate Roger Myerson sharing outside your community is more important. By crossing maths with history and politics, Myerson arrived at new insights about economics, found his love for game theory and moved onwards into new ways to describe situations where markets don’t…

Nobel Prize Conversations Protecting the ship, building relationships and organising surprise weddings – in this conversation, conducted in February 2020, Paul Romer discusses everything from the special moment he experienced just hours before collecting his prize to the importance of unity, purpose and inclusion. The host of this podcast is nobelprize.org’s Adam Smith.

Nobel Prize Conversations Angus Deaton dreamed of being a pianist, a rugby player or a mathematician – but he just wasn’t good enough. After these setbacks, however, he discovered economics, and in 2015 he was awarded the prize in economic sciences for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare. Listen to a conversation conducted in…

Nobel Prize Conversations Nudges, sludges and the connection between stubbornness and success – listen to a conversation with Richard Thaler, conducted in February 2020. His work has helped us to understand how people make choices in the real world and has also given us tools to nudge people towards better decisions. The host of this…

Nobel Prize Conversations “The first thing I did to see if it at all would have a chance was to buy a piece of liver in the food store close to the institute and just dry it in the laboratory” In a podcast episode with medicine laureate Svante Pääbo, he tells us about the start…

Nobel Prize Conversations “I was just curious about everything” Meet economist Philip Dybvig in a podcast episode. He tells us about his endless curiosity and how his parents encouraged his interest in the world from an early age. In his childhood home music played an important role and Dybvig shares how he and the rest of…

Nobel Prize Conversations “The main goal is to make discoveries and gift them to humanity” “Your purpose as a scientist is not to achieve fame or money, that is not your purpose, those might be side effects and good for you, that could be wonderful for you but it is a side effect, it is…

Nobel Prize Conversations “Whatever honour you get, the most interesting is still what goes on in the fume hood” “My daughter was sitting on the second or third row and I could see that she was crying. And tears actually are contagious. So I was almost crying when I had to go up and receive…