Three distinguished economists—Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson—have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their groundbreaking research on how ...

The award is shared by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT and James Robinson of the University of Chicago for their research on the institutional roots of national wealth and poverty. They ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson will share the prize, which carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million).

Acemoglu has been a fixture in the Planet Money Newsletter. In fact, Acemoglu made an appearance in last week’s newsletter!Acemoglu’s work was also featured in a recent newsletter on why ...

Acemoglu went to the U.K. for university, and entered the doctoral program at the London School of Economics. It was there that he first met Robinson, at a seminar in 1992.

Acemoglu and Robinson wrote the 2012 bestseller “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty,’’ which argued that manmade problems were responsible for keeping countries ...

Star Economist Acemoglu Discusses Trump "It's Likely To Be Much Worse Now Than Eight Years Ago" The U.S. economist Daron Acemoglu accuses center-left parties of having betrayed the interests of ...

Around the time that MIT economist Daron Acemoglu became one of AI’s most prominent hype-busters, he also won a Nobel Prize. While those two things are not directly related, Acemoglu says there ...

Economist Daron Acemoglu, 2024 Nobel Prize winner in economics, speaks to the media during a conference in Athens on Oct. 14. (Petros Giannakouris/AP) The United States is immensely prosperous ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson will share the prize, which carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million).