TAG: Economics Nobel
Economics Nobel Prize: Reserved for ‘Ivy’ League?
It is Nobel Prize season again. The Prizes for Physics, Chemistry and Medicine have been awarded and for Economics it will be announced on October 14. The original prizes date back to 1901 along with Literature and Peace. The latter two awards are not re...
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Economics Nobel 2024 opens the Pandora’s Box of the role of colonialism in economic history
The Nobel Prize in Economics for 2024 has been awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson (AJR as they are popularly called) for their work on “how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”. The choice of the award is interesting as...
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Economics Nobel winners sought to answer the question why some nations lag others
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for 2024 to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson is for their ground-breaking research in explaining the differences in prosperity between nations, and for their substantial research of over 500 years of st...
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