The prize was given to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson for work that advanced the understanding of differences in prosperity between countries.

Reconsidering Why Some Nations Fail — and Others Prosper. Outside the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, 2015 (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) Share 17 Comments Listen. ... Simon Johnson, ...

The two, who co-authored the book Why Nations Fail, ... MIT economist Simon Johnson — for their research on “how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” ...

A Nobel prize for an explanation of why nations fail : ... Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson of the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic ...

The two, who co-authored the book Why Nations Fail, ... MIT economist Simon Johnson — for their research on “how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” ...

On January 6th, 2021, rioters stormed the United States Capitol building. To many of us, it felt like one of the bedrock institutional traditions of our democracy was in jeopardy: the peaceful ...

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