
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to three researchers for their work on innovation-driven growth: Joel Mokyr (economic historian, Dutch/Israeli/US citizen, working in the US), Philippe Aghion (French, working in France and London), and Peter Howitt (Canadian, working in the US), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm on Monday afternoon, local time, marking the end of this year's Nobel Prize season.

Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro Thursday unleashed anger worldwide when he claimed his government deserved the Nobel Prize in Economics, which earned him a barrage of negative comments on social media.