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Goran K. Hansson (C), Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Nobel Economics Prize committee members Peter Fredriksson (L) and Eva Mork (R) give a press conference to announce the winners of the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in E

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A Nobel Prize for a revolution in economics

7:08am October 12, 2021

by Greg Rosalsky

David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens win a Nobel Prize for revolutionizing how economics is done.

Alan Krueger on the day he was nominated by President Obama as Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

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What Alan Krueger Taught Us

8:39am March 19, 2019

by Greg Rosalsky

The renowned economist and former Obama adviser Alan Krueger died this past weekend. We look at his enormous legacy.

Alan Krueger, a Princeton University economist and chairman of former President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, specialized in workforce economics.

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Ex-White House Economist Alan Krueger Dies; Saw Lessons For Economy In Rock Music

6:00pm March 18, 2019

by Scott Horsley

Princeton economist Alan Krueger, who served in the Obama White House, has died. Krueger's research interests included the minimum wage, the opioid epidemic and rock 'n' roll. He was 58.