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 ...

Acemoglu and Robinson were co-authors of “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty,” which was first published in 2012.

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 ...

When Acemoglu and Robinson wrote Why Nations Fail almost a decade ago, they used the United States as an institutional success story. They acknowledge the nation has a dark side: slavery, genocide ...

When Acemoglu and Robinson wrote Why Nations Fail almost a decade ago, they used the United States as an institutional success story. They acknowledge the nation has a dark side: slavery, genocide ...

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 ...