Origins of Technology

London school of economics, Nobel Prize

A Nobel Prize for explaining when technology leads to growth

The economic historian Joel Mokyr, a professor at Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University, was co-awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in economics this week for his decades of research trying to ans...

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Economics Nobel Prize awarded for explaining innovation-driven growth

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Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth

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Three Share Nobel in Economics for Work on How Technology Drives Growth

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded on Monday to Joel Mokyr at Northwestern University, Philippe Aghion at INSEAD and the London School of Economics and Peter Howitt of Brown Un...

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Trio Win Nobel Economics Prize for Work on Innovation, Growth and 'Creative Destruction'

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Brown professor, former Harvard professor among trio awarded Nobel Prize in economics

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Nobel Prize Hails Firm-Level Innovation As Key To Economic Growth

The laureates collectively illustrate innovation’s role at the firm level in efficient resource use and long-term prosperity.

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Canadian Peter Howitt among 3 Nobel winners in economics

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

American Enterprise Institute

History of Technology: Cheaper, Cleaner, Easier

Every fall since 2020 I have been teaching energy economics in Northwestern University’s Master of Science in Energy and Sustainability (MSES) program. I team teach with my friend Mark Witte, and my part of the course is backloaded—natural monopoly ...

Wall Street Journal

The World Wide Web Turns 30: A History of the Internet Technology

On April 30, 1993, the European research organization known as CERN released Tim Berners-Lee’s code for the World Wide Web into the public domain. The internet has many components but this innovation was critical, establishing an information sharing-and ...

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Agency history, 1885-1995

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