As the presidential election comes down to the wire, Quartz spoke with Simon Johnson, an economist at the Massachusetts ...

One of the winners, Simon Johnson, joined Geoff Bennett to discuss the award and some of these findings. The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded today to a trio of economists who have published ...

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Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson examined how different kinds of European colonization led to some nations being rich and others poor.

The Nobel Prize in chemistry included a U.S. scientist, David Baker, who along with Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, were ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson "have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country's prosperity," the Nobel committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of ...

The Nobel Prize in economic sciences was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson for work that advanced the understanding of differences in prosperity between countries.

He and fellow MIT professor Simon Johnson, 61, along with James A. Robinson, 64, of the University of Chicago, received the prestigious award by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for their ...

James Robinson and his colleagues' work explores why some countries are rich and others are poor, and why those income gaps persist.

U.S.-based economists Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson were awarded the Nobel prize in economic sciences on Monday for their work on wealth inequality between nations. Acemoglu and ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in economics has been awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson for their influential research on "how institutions are formed and affect prosperity ...