MIT's Simon Johnson is one of this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. HIs work focuses on how institutions ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson were awarded the Nobel memorial prize in economics for their work on why ...

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Three immigrants to America won the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics, illustrating continued contributions by immigrants to the ...

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A trio of economists just won a Nobel prize for their insights into how democratic and other inclusive institutions are ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded jointly Monday to three researchers, two from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one from the University of Chicago, for their work in ...

Two pioneers in the field of machine learning have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of ...

A University of Chicago professor and two other economists – and his longtime friends – were awarded the Nobel memorial prize ...

A University of Chicago professor is among three Nobel Prize winners. WGN's Angelica Sanchez has more on his work.

Their research centered around tracing the roots of the question: "Why are some countries poorer and others more prosperous?

MIT economists Acemoglu and Johnson, with UChicago's Robinson, won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on ...