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Over the past two centuries, the world has experienced unprecedented economic growth. What sparked this transformation? In this seminar, 2025 economic sciences laureates Joel Mokyr and Philippe Aghion reveal the forces behind progress, and discover how ideas, innovation and a touch of creative destruction sparked the greatest boom in human history. But growth can never be left on autopilot - prosperity only endures if we keep driving it. What's at stake today?

The conversation, recorded on 12 December 2025 at Grünewaldsalen, Konserthuset Stockholm, is led by award-winning author and financial journalist Katrine Kielos, with commentary from Kerstin Enflo, professor of economic history and member of the economic sciences committee and Johan Norberg, historian of ideas, author and senior fellow at the Cato Institute.

The economics seminar 2025: What sparks economic prosperity (and what could stop it) is a collaboration between Nobel Prize Outreach and Handelsbanken Foundations & Publishing.

Read more about the 2025 economic sciences prize here: nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2025/popular-information