Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

The New Elizabethans: the full list

20 May 2012

The 60 people who BBC Radio 4 claims have had the greatest impact on Britain during the second Elizabethan period will be profiled over the next few months. Here is the list of who they selected:

Bernie Sanders Offers Plan To Cut Prescription Drug Prices

19 May 2012

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is promoting a new plan to encourage the development of better, cheaper prescription drugs: an innovation fund rewarding companies for inventing important new HIV and AIDS medications. In exchange for accepting an innovation award, drugmakers would agree to sell their new medicines at low prices.

Nobel prize winners accuse science council of 'misusing public funds'

15 May 2012

Civil servants are "squandering taxpayers' money" and "misusing public funds" by interfering with science and maths research, according to nine Nobel Prize winners.