What does the decision to grant the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson mean for South Africa? I would say, more than you might think.

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 economist and political scientist from the University of Chicago rejects the idea that repressive power structures will ...

MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson PhD ‘89, whose work has illuminated the relationship between political ...

(2012) and The Narrow Corridor (2019). The Committee has chosen ... Singapore and South Korea easily refute Acemoglu’s argument that democratic political institutions are a prerequisite for ...

The author of numerous best-selling books, including Why Nations Fail (2012) and The Narrow Corridor (2019), he won the Nobel this ... Now, Robinson and his co-author Darren Acemoglu have written a ...

Daron Acemoglu is Institute Professor of Economics at MIT. He is the co-author (with James Robinson) of The Narrow Corridor and the New York Times bestseller Why Nations Fail. Simon Johnson is the ...

Last week, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Sveriges Riksbank (Central Bank of Sweden) instituted Nobel Memorial ...

When economist James A. Robinson ’93 Ph.D. won the Nobel Prize this week, he reflected on the lasting influence of his thesis ...