Simon Johnson, economist, professor at MIT.
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American economists Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Science on Monday for their research on “how institutions form and influence prosperity.”
The award, officially known as the Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, will receive 11 million Swedish krona ($1.058 million) from the Riksbank.
The prize will be divided equally among the winners – as will be the case in 2022, when the prize is Disagreement among U.S. economists Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig.
economists and historians Claudia Golding wins Nobel Prize in Economics 2023. Improving understanding of women’s earnings and labor market outcomes.
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded last week Nihon Hidankyo, an organization of Japanese atomic bomb survivors, in recognition of its efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
The other Nobel Prizes, first awarded in 1901, are physics, Chemical, physiology or medicineand literature.
The Economic Science Prize was established in 1968 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Riksbank and was first awarded a year later. The laureates are selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in recognition of work of “outstanding importance”.
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