2 Americans win economics Nobel for work on climate, tech

By DAVID KEYTON and JIM HEINTZ
STOCKHOLM — Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for studying a pressing issue facing the global economy: how to deal with pollution and climate change and how to foster the innovation needed to tackle such problems.
William Nordhaus of Yale University and Paul Romer of New York University were announced winners of the 9-million-kronor ($1.01 million) prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Romer’s work “explains how id