The three U.S.-based academics studied why some countries are rich and others poor and have documented that freer, open ...

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

The three received the award for their work on the differences in prosperity among nations, and the role institutions play in ...

Robinson, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, won the Nobel Prize along with his colleagues from MIT, Daron ...

Their studies have shown the importance of giving people a real democratic voice for countries’ economic survival, the Nobel ...

Turkish Armenian economist Daron Acemoglu has been awarded the Nobel Prize in economic sciences. Acemoglu, a professor at the ...

MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson PhD ’89 have been named winners of the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in ...

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

The award is formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Instituted by the ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson—have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their ...

Discover how Nobel laureates Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson link global economic inequality to colonial-era institutions.