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Abhijit Banerjee joins Tagore, Raman in India's club of Nobel Prize winners

Born in Mumbai, the 58-year-old economist is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Economics Nobel winners helped '5 mn school kids read and write better'

The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty"

Reasons why Paul Romer, William Nordhaus won 2018 Nobel Prize in economics

Fundamentally, both Romer and Nordhaus have contributed to the economics profession in the same way

Yale economist who changed reasoning on climate change wins Nobel Prize

A premise of his research was that the environment is a public good

Economics Nobel tries to catch up to the field

So far, no one researching how policies work in the real world has won

Thank Richard Thaler for your retirement savings

Thaler and other adherents of behavioural economics pointed out that workers saving for retirement can be their own worst enemies

'Nudging' people to make better choices

Nobel winner Richard Thaler's formalisation of economic behaviour that is not rational in the traditional sense reframes economic questions in ways that can improve government policies

A Nobel 'nudge'

Mr Thaler made human behaviour central to economic theory

Psychology of economics: Richard Thaler bags Nobel

The economics prize was established in 1968 in memory of Alfred Nobel and is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Understanding Richard Thaler's Nobel-winning work

Thaler of the University of Chicago has made the case that human decisions are shaped by social context, expectation and temptation