The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 to three American economists whose work established the critical role of ...

Two MIT economists were among those awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday for their decades of work illuminating the relationship between political institutions and economic prosperity.

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Oct. 14 (UPI) --Three U.S.-based economists were awarded the Nobel Prize in economic sciences Monday for their work examining how institutions are formed and their effect on prosperity. Daron Acemoglu ...

Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University This year’s Nobel memorial prize in economics has gone to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the ...

James Robinson speaks to the press, colleagues and students at the University of Chicago after learning that he had won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on Oct. 14, 2024. Scott Olson/Getty ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aisha Nyandoro is a leading voice on equitable economic policies. As Congress debates proposals to add work requirements to ...

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Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...

Most colleges and universities have an office for student affairs; there’s even a national professional organization—NASPA—dedicated to student affairs administrators. Faculty affairs hasn’t received ...