Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Meet the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Class of 2012: An Overview of the 206th Commencement

24 May 2012

This year, 1,613 students will receive degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Saturday, May 26, beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the East Campus Athletic Village (ECAV) stadium. They represent the next generation of leaders, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, patent holders, game designers, architects, and innovators, in fields ranging from engineering to architecture, fine arts to science ...

Better life: relaunching the happiness index

23 May 2012

The OECD is relaunching its Better Life Index today - and has given us the key data behind it • Get the data • Data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian For an indicator we have to use all the time , GDP has very few friends. The idea of a single number to show a country's economic power came from US Nobel-prize winning economist Simon Kuznets - and that's what GDP is, a measure ...

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: