Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt have won the 2025 Nobel economics prize for their work on how innovation and the forces of "creative destruction" can drive economic growth and lift living standards across the globe.

Their research explains how technology gives rise to new products and production methods which replace old ones, resulting in a better standard of living, health and quality of life.

"Over the last two centuries, for the first time in history, the world has seen sustained economic growth. This has lifted vast numbers of people out of poverty and laid the foundation of our prosperity," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the prize, said in a statement.

Economic growth not guaranteed

The laureates have also shown that such progress cannot be taken

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