Fourth Industrial Revolution

Four Nobel economists on the biggest challenges for 2016

A man walks past an electronic board showing Japan's Nikkei average outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan January 12, 2016. Japan's Nikkei fell 2.7 percent after a market holiday on Monday, closing at its lowest in nearly a year, while U.S. stock mini futures were in the red pointing to a weak start.

How to manage risk, sluggish productivity, deteriorating patterns of growth, relocating refugees – what keeps economists up at night? Image: REUTERS/Toru Hanai

Alvin Roth
Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Edmund S. Phelps
Director, The Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University
Robert J. Shiller
Professor, Yale University
A. Michael Spence
William R. Berkley Professor in Economics and Business, NYU Stern School of Business
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