Canadian David Card, Israeli-American Joshua Angrist and Dutch-American Guido Imbens won the Nobel Economics Prize for insights into the labour market and "natural experiments", the jury said. The economics prize, officially the Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was the only prize not among the original five set out by the will of Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896. Just like this year, the Economics Prize has generally been male-dominated. The Peace Prize went to investigative journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia while the Literature Prize was won by Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah. The Medicine Prize went to US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch.

Source: Manila Times October 11, 2021 12:11 UTC