Nobel Prize banquet speech: Joel Mokyr

"Humans are by nature inquisitive, and have continued to uncover the secrets of nature, as the nine winners in various sciences present here so gloriously personify. Given how rapidly science is evolving in our age of high-powered computers, AI, lasers, genetic engineering, and so much more, the best way to summarize our technological future is the American colloquialism 'you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.'" The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth" with one half to Joel Mokyr "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress" and the other half jointly to Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt "for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction". © Nobel Prize Outreach