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Econ Nobel Laureate on how technology impacts economic growth

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom
Published December 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM EST
Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University, poses at his home after winning the Nobel prize in economics, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Skokie, Ill. (Nam Y. Huh/AP)
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Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University, poses at his home after winning the Nobel prize in economics, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Skokie, Ill. (Nam Y. Huh/AP)

 Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Joel Mokyr, Nobel Prize winner and economist at Northwestern University, who also teaches at Tel Aviv University. Mokyr has studied how technological change affects economic growth.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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