On October 12, two Americans, Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, not for “experimental approach to alleviating global poverty” or for “integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis” but for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.”

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