Econ Nobel Laureate on how technology impacts economic growth

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Published December 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM EST

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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.

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