Last of the Nobel Prizes to be awarded, that of the Economy returns on Monday to a trio made up of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig, announced the Nobel committee.
These three economists are awarded “for their research on banks and financial crises”.
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig “for research on banks and financial crises. ”#NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/cW0sLFh2sj
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 10, 2022
Specialists in work, poverty or even altruism were cited among the possible winners, at a time when a global recession is looming.
The only one not to have been provided for in Alfred Nobel's will, this prize created by the Swedish Central Bank "in memory" of the inventor was added in 1969 to the five traditional awards (medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace), earning him the nickname of "false Nobel" among his detractors.
This year, two French people were honored with a prestigious Nobel: Annie Ernaux, in literature, and Alain Aspect in physics.
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