Would you let an economist set you up on a date? Economics is often associated with the idea of money. But the field extends beyond what can be (or should be) monetized. In the 1960s, researchers ...

Alvin Roth (left) and Lloyd Shapley were awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Economics. Prices are often the easiest way to create an efficient market–the person willing to pay the most gets the thing ...

“They’ve been talked about as likely winners for a long time now, so it’s not really a huge surprise they’ve been chosen,” Princeton economics professor Dilip Abreu GS ’83 said. “It was a matter of ...