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.

The Nobel prize in economics was awarded on Oct. 14 to Turkish American Daron Acemoglu and British Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson for research into wealth inequality between nations. By ...

Three U.S.-based academics won the 2024 Nobel economics prize on Monday for research that explored the aftermath of colonisation to understand why global inequality persists today, especially in ...

Two professors from Massachusetts have been honored with one of the most prestigious awards in the world. Daron Acemoglu and ...

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

The 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics has been awarded to three US economists - Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, both from the ...

The authors argued that “countries have no control over their geographic location, colonial heritage, or legal origin, but ...

University of York alumnus Daron Acemoglu has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, alongside Simon Johnson and ...

According to Nobel Prize founder Alfred Nobel, the award goes to “those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”  Though Alfred Nobel ...

This years’ winners find democratic institutions and the rule of law are more likely to have been established in countries in which European colonisers faced little resistance.

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