Two Americans win Nobel Prize in Economics
The 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to American scientists Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims for their "empirical research into the causes that affect macroeconomics, " Kommersant reports . Last year, the award was given to Peter Diamond, Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides, authors of the DMP (Diamond, Mortensen, Pissarides) model, which is used around the world to study unemployment and social policy.