The late Queen was reportedly asked whether she wanted to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her services to the ...

The Nobel Prizes, widely regarded as the most prestigious awards available in their respective fields, are six prizes awarded ...

Three economists were awarded the Nobel Prize Monday for their research into how the nature of institutions helps explain why some countries become rich and others remain poor.

Winners today come, on average, from less wealthy families than when the prize began but there is still a long way to go ...

South Korean author Han Kang, the first Korean writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, is expected to be called by ...

This year’s Nobel laureates link democracy to economic success, but their theory ignores autocratic growth and rehashes old ...

With another annual UN Conference of the Parties (COP) on climate change starting again next week, it is worth accessing the ...

December in Sweden means a possible interest rate cut, the Nobel Prize ceremony and Christmas, among other things. Here's ...

Research into inequality has featured strongly in recent awards. Last year, Harvard economic historian Claudia Goldin won the prize for her work highlighting the causes of wage and labour market ...

The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the world. In his will, Alfred Nobel, a 19th-century Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor and industrialist, directed that his fortune be ...

As long as political institutions favour only the elite and neglect the general public, they will face credibility issues ...

The economics prize is officially known as Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Unlike the prizes for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace ...