Overall, the work of the Nobel laureates is, all things considered, audaciously ambitious in its simplicity of explanation ...

It was the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that announced the winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics at a press conference in Stockholm last week. They were Daron Acemoglu of Massachusetts ...

The three winners of this year’s Nobel in Economics have two eminently readable books to their credit: Why Nations Fail? (2012) and The Narrow Corridor (2019). The Committee has chosen to pick up the ...

Economic historians get a win, in that Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson’s most famous work was on historical processes of ...

The authors argued that “countries have no control over their geographic location, colonial heritage, or legal origin, but ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded this month to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson, for their ...