The winners of the Nobel prize in economics experiment on poor people, but their research doesn’t solve poverty

Yale economist William Nordhaus has devoted his life’s work to understanding the costs of climate change

Frenchman Jean Tirole has won the economics Nobel for his work on how governments can rein in big businesses, in a field once dominated by the US.

A British-Cypriot and two Americans won the 2010 economics Nobel on Monday for work helping explain unemployment and job markets.

United States economist Paul Krugman won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics, the prize committee said on Monday.