3 researchers win Nobel Prize in economics
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recognized Howitt’s and Aghion’s research into forces that drive long-term economic growth, and how new technologies can simultaneously fuel progress and upend existing industries.
A new update to an influential economic theory called "Doughnut Economics" shows a global economy on a collision course with nature.
Howitt, a professor emeritus of economics who joined the Brown faculty in 2000, was awarded “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.”