Why do some nations flourish while others remain trapped in poverty? This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics goes to three ...

Economic issues are top of mind for many voters as they head to the polls this election cycle. According to a recent ...

Three economists were awarded the Nobel Prize Monday for their research into how the nature of institutions helps explain why some countries become rich and others remain poor.

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

This year’s economics award reinforces a comforting but false story about democracy.

of the Nobel assembly announce the Nobel memorial prize in economics winners, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A ...

Heed the brightest minds in economics when they issue a dire warning about inflation, deficits and inequality if the former ...

Conventional economists seem to be incapable of understanding that what they take to be economics is only capitalist ...

Conclusion of laureates Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson - that prosperity depends on good (non-extractive) institutions, ...

This year’s Nobel laureates link democracy to economic success, but their theory ignores autocratic growth and rehashes old ...

In their 2012 book Why Nations Fail, Daren Acemoglu and James Robinson discussed how institutions determine the success or ...

Princeton University will present its top awards for alumni to Elena Kagan ’81, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the ...