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Live Blog: Angus Deaton Nobel Prize in Economics – Press Conference
Monday, 12 October 2015
by Mary Hui
Princeton professor of economics Angus Deaton is awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.” The University Press Club will be providing live updates from this afternoon’s press conference. 6:30am – Angus Deaton receives a phone call from the Nobel Committee “If you’re my age and you’ve been working for a
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Angus Deaton, Economics, economics professors, Liveblog, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in economics
And the Nobel Prize goes to…
Thursday, 07 October 2010
by Sarah Vitali
Sorry, Spencer…you put your money on the wrong Princetonian. This year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for literature is Peruvian-born author Mario Vargas Llosa, who is currently serving as the 2010 Distinguished Visitor in Princeton’s Program in Latin American Studies. According to nobelprize.org, Vargas Llosa’s selection was based on “his cartography of structures of power
- Published in Faculty, Princeton in the News
British Gambling Website Gives Joyce Carol Oates 18-1 Odds to Win Nobel Prize in Literature
Tuesday, 05 October 2010
by Spencer Gaffney
Princeton creative writing professor (and literary superstar) Joyce Carol Oates has an 18-1 chance to win this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, according to British gambling website Ladbrokes.com. The site gives only 11 people better odds to win than Oates, including heavy favorite Cormac McCarthy at 5-2 odds. Haruki Murakami, who also taught at Princeton,
- Published in Faculty
How P-Krug Gets His Groove Back
Monday, 22 February 2010
by David Walter
From a profile of Economics Professor Paul (“Nobel Laureate”) Krugman in this week’s New Yorker: When it is cold at home, or he has a couple of weeks with nothing to do but write his Times column [but what about WWS 543?], or when something unexpectedly stressful happens, like winning the Nobel Prize, the Princeton economist
- Published in Princeton in the News
Krugman: LOOK AT ME I’M SO MODEST!!!!!!!111
Monday, 30 March 2009
by Brian No
Princeton professor and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman appears on this week’s cover of Newsweek, complete with an adorable (or “whimsical,” as one Press Clubber puts it) picture and a profile penned by visiting journalism professor Evan Thomas. Though the profile is an interesting look at Krugman’s role as a liberal critic of the Obama Administration,
- Published in Goings On