The big protest by workers after their summer break went almost without notice and now the heads of the two biggest trade unions say they have to do more

  Elinor Ostrom becomes the first woman to win the award, sharing it with Oliver Williamson for their work on how transactions operate outside markets in common spaces and and within companies

  Political reality is that a 'right to health' is a trump card to get more resources – and it is rarely the poor who play it most effectively, writes William Easterly

  The importance of fair value accounting to responsible systemic risk management is hard to overstate, writes Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs

  Talks could be concluded by the end of the year, according to Mohamed Thiam, the country's minister of mines, on billions of dollars of financing for infrastructure and minerals projects

  Economics cannot hope definitively to decide large swathes of the subject. The subject is blindingly complex, as well as relatively young, and much of the data incomplete and unreliable

  Carry trading is hot again but it will end in tears just like last time as exchange rates rebalance

  Latvia's decision to cling to its currency peg to the euro has at least bought time for other countries in the region

  There has turned out to be a significant downside to having a global financial centre, but the industry can still facilitate growth

  Imagine a world with a small current account deficit in the US, a somewhat larger deficit in the eurozone and a not too excessive Asian surplus. In the long run, such a world would require significant reform of the monetary system. But in the short term, a fall in the dollar would help, writes Wolfgang Münchau

  America's leaders should commit now and in detail to implement deficit reduction once the economy has strengthened. Vague promises will not work, says Roger Altman

  Talks designed to pave the way for a comprehensive climate deal in Copenhagen this year ended on Friday with little progress and the gap between developing and industrialised nations seemingly no closer

  In its most violent mission so far, the US space agency Nasa slams two probes into the moon, in the hope of detecting lunar ice in a vast plume of moondust

  As corporate golden handshakes go, awarding $1.4m to a chief executive barely nine months into the job merely for giving his shareholders hope is actually quite modest. But before the Nobel Peace Prize goes to Barack Obama's head, the Foundation should take a leaf out of the G20's guidelines on bankers' bonuses and apply a few constraints