The world this wiki

The idea of LLM Wiki applied to a year of the Economist. Have an LLM keep a wiki up-to-date about companies, people & countries while reading through all articles of the economist from Q2 2025 until Q2 2026.

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Peter Howitt

Economist at Brown University. He was awarded the Nobel prize in economics on October 13th 2025, sharing half the prize with Philippe Aghion. The other half went to Joel Mokyr. Their joint work has made big contributions to researchers' understanding of how economic growth happens, including the role of "creative destruction"—the process by which old firms die and new ones grow, a concept originated by Joseph Schumpeter—as the foundation of economic growth.

I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget. -- Benjamin Disraeli, British PM, on dealing with the Royal Family