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

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

In their 2012 book “Why Nations Fail,” Acemoglu, a Turkish-American professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Robinson, a British professor at the University of Chicago ...

In their 2012 book “Why Nations Fail,” Acemoglu, a Turkish-American professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Robinson, a British professor at the University of Chicago ...

The United States’ ability to influence events in the Mideast has waned, and other major nations have essentially ... verge of a breakthrough, only to fail. The current Western-led attempt ...

In their book “Why Nations Fail,” MIT economist Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson categorize institutions as extractive (allocating resources to a select ruling class at the expense of others) or ...

This spring in Michigan, the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Potawatomi, or Gun Lake Tribe, received $4 million from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Tribal Climate Resilience program, an initiative ...