Since it was introduced in 1968, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to 79 individuals for their contributions to different branches of economics. Yet not all of them were economists by training. Here are three contributions that earned their authors the Nobel Prize in a field that wasn’t initially theirs. 1.
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Superstar Katy Perry’s 2017 album Witness sold “only” 180,000 copies the first week it went on sale. Expectations dashed, Perry fell into a depression. She explains her overwhelming disappointment, “I have bouts of situational depressions and my heart was broken last year because unknowingly, I put so much validity in the reaction of the public, and the
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To commemorate my 25th wedding anniversary this week to my husband, Jesse, I asked readers on Facebook to share their own secrets to a long happy marriage. In short, the crowdsourced recipe for marital endurance includes faith, forgiveness, romance, kindness, selflessness, and a healthy dose of humor. A union built to last begins with a
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I recently overhead a friend of mine disgustedly muttering at his phone. Contrary to what one might think, his disgust was not over problems with his hand-held device; instead, it was over a notification he had just received from Reddit. The notification explained that he had been banned from the board entitled “Black Lives Matter.”
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The Democrat Party has been shifting to the left on healthcare. A recent Gallup poll found that nearly 70 percent of Democrats favor a single-payer system. But the same poll found that when given the choice of “Favor,” “Oppose,” or “Don’t know enough to say,” a whopping 61 percent of responders chose the third option.
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In June the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic co-hosted an event that discussed the “masculinity crisis” many young men are experiencing in America and Europe. While there was much disagreement as to what is the root cause of this crisis is and how it can best be addressed, the panelists agreed on one thing: a crisis of
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