Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson shared the award for their work on explaining the gaps in prosperity between ...

Three U.S.-based academics won the 2024 Nobel economics prize on Monday for research that explored the aftermath of ...

The three economists “have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity,” the Nobel ...

The Nobel committee has put the spotlight back on global inequalities. Bestowing its prestigious economics prize on Daron ...

Acemoglu, who was born in Istanbul, and Johnson, who was born in the U.K., are professors of economics at the Massachusetts ...

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

The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded Monday to a trio of economists who have published research that looks at what accounts for inequality between countries and how the role of institutions, ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize also known as the Sveriges Riksbank ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson. Research associates Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson have ...

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

The award for work into why countries succeed and fail is the final prize to be given out this year and is worth $1.1m.