Their research centered around tracing the roots of the question: "Why are some countries poorer and others more prosperous?

The three U.S.-based academics studied why some countries are rich and others poor and have documented that freer, open ...

Robinson, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, won the Nobel Prize along with his colleagues from MIT, Daron ...

Their studies have shown the importance of giving people a real democratic voice for countries’ economic survival, the Nobel ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson shared the award for their work on explaining the gaps in prosperity between ...

Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, of MIT, and James A. Robinson, of the University of Chicago, won the prize Monday for ...

MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson PhD ’89 have been named winners of the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in ...

Two Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors have become the institution's latest Nobel laureates. New laureate Simon ...

MIT economists Acemoglu and Johnson, with UChicago's Robinson, won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on ...

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