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This year’s series of Nobel Prizes ends on Monday with the announcement of the winner in the economics category. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm is due to award the prize at 11:45 am (0945 GMT) at the earliest. Last year’s prize went to US economist Claudia Goldin for her research into the role of women in the labour market. Prior to that, the prize had been awarded several times to two or three people at the same time. Officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, the award is worth 11 million kronor ($1 million), the same as the oth…

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