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First reactions | Joel Mokyr, prize in economic sciences 2025 | Telephone interview

First reactions | Joel Mokyr, prize in economic sciences 2025 | Telephone interview

Nobel Prize Conversations · Andrew Hart

October 13, 20253m 12s

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“I had a whole list of people that I thought were going to win,” says Joel Mokyr, “And I wasn’t on it.” Waking early, he opened up his computer to find out who had been awarded the 2025 prize in economic sciences, and found emails saying ’Congratulations.’ Then, as Mokyr tells the Nobel Prize’s Adam Smith in this brief call, he saw missed calls from Sweden on his phone and, “The suspicion started to ripen!”

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