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

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The 2024 Nobel laureate shares three key recommendations. Graduate from being a ‘talent nation’ to an innovation hothouse, ...

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

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.

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

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

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

The Nobel laureates in the economic sciences have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s ...

Tech billionaires such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are not just among the richest people in human history.

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Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson have been awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on global wealth inequality.