At the end of a Nobel season that has foiled many predictions and fled the favorites, the 2021 economy prize was awarded this Monday in Stockholm (Sweden) to Canadian David Card, American Joshua Angrist and to American-Dutch Guido Imbens.
It comes to close a week of prices which have often thwarted all the forecasts of experts as well as punters.
Thus, for this Nobel Prize in economics, it was macroeconomics and credit cycles, health economics or the labor market that were among the fields well placed to win the youngest Nobel, according to experts polled by AFP.
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The 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded with one half to David Card and the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens. # NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/nkMjWai4Gn
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Sometimes called a "false Nobel" because created by the Bank of Sweden more than 60 years after the other five (medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace), the prize crowned the American duo of auction specialists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson last year.
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With only two laureates among the 86 recipients of the prize (the American Elinor Ostrom in 2009 and the French Esther Duflo 10 years later), or 97.7% of male laureates, the Nobel in economics is the least female, so even that he is only half a century old.
More generally, the 2021 Nobel season has so far been not very feminine - only one female laureate, the Filipino Maria Ressa, for peace - despite the promise of the Nobel committees to ensure better parity, commensurate with the presence of women at the forefront of global research.
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