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China is using its economic growth as a lever to demand countries stay away from the Nobel ceremony in Oslo today honoring an imprisoned Chinese dissident.

In a wide-ranging interview, the Nobel Prize winner decries the system of skewed incentives that allowed Wall Street bankers and other corporate execs to gamble with the country's wealth -- and then get away largely scot-free. What happened to "with justice for all," he asks.

Interview Transcript: Joseph Stiglitz, Oct. 20, 2010 By Sam Gustin and Michael Rainey Prof. Joseph Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University and Chair, Columbia University Committee on Global Thought. He teaches classes at the Columbia Business School, the Graduate School of Arts and...

Among Monday's top online reads for investors: What usually happens when the Dow passes 11,000; why Nassim Taleb wants to sue the Nobel Prize committee; and where do McDonald's chicken nuggets come from?

Why do so many people remain unemployed amid a large number of job openings? Peter A. Diamond of MIT, Dale T. Mortensen of Northwestern and Christopher A. Pissarides of the London School of Economics provided a Noble Prize-winning answer.

When Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for Literature this week, the British literary betting agent Ladbrokes couldn't have been more pleased. Ladbrokes had given the Peruvian author slim odds of winning the prize, so when Vargas Llosa won, Ladbrokes avoided a massive payout.

On Monday, Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics, along with fellow American Oliver Williamson. In addition to being a surprise winner, Ostrom's research had a surprising inspiration: her mother's tomatoes and carrots. "My mother had a victory garden during the...

The Nobel Prize for Medicine was won by three American scientists Monday. The trio won the coveted award for answering some of the most basic questions in life, further deciphering one of our building blocks -- the human cell. The three Americans joining the long list of Nobel Laureates in their...