The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson were jointly awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”.

Daron Acemoglu

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2024
Born: September 3, 1967, Istanbul, Turkey.
Affiliation at the time of the grant was Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA.
Prize motivation: “For studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”

Simon Johnson

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2024
Born: 1963 in Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Affiliation at the time of the grant was Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA.
Prize motivation: “For studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”

James A. Robinson

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2024
Born: 1960
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Prize motivation: “For studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”

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