The Nobel memorial prize in economics has been awarded to three U.S.-based academics who studied why some countries are rich ...

A trio of economists just won a Nobel prize for their insights into how democratic and other inclusive institutions are ...

Daron Acemoglu, an economist at MIT, is so prolific and respected that he's long been viewed as a leading candidate for the Nobel prize in ... sprawling book, "Why Nations Fail," Acemoglu and ...

Weinstein opened the talk by praising Acemoglu, the co-author of “Why Nations Fail.” Weinstein shared ... has often been mentioned as a future Nobel Prize winner for his extensive research ...

He conjured up the memorable phrase “animal spirits” to describe why, for example, entrepreneurs undertook ventures even though it is well known that most of them fail. He wrote of the ...

As the world gears up for Monday’s announcement of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, it’s worth reflecting on whether the prize still carries the same value it once did. While the Nobel is ...

Economists Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, creators of Marginal Revolution, recently made their picks for who might win the upcoming 2024 Nobel Prize for economics. The discussion came during an ...

Alfred Nobel stated in his will that the prize should be awarded for "the most or the best work for fraternity between nations ... of the winner of the economics prize, formally known as the ...

It won the prize ... Nobel Committee also said that Nihon Hidankyo has provided "thousands of witness accounts, issued resolutions and public appeals, and sent annual delegations to the United ...

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Japanese grassroots ... It also regularly sends Hibakusha to the U.N. and other nations to explain what it was like to survive the atomic bomb attack.

The Nobel Prize for economics will be awarded next week ... Mr. Trump, to his credit, believes in Dr. Laffer's curve. That's why he awarded Art the Presidential Medal of Freedom in June 2019.

On the most recent episode of the Marginal Revolution podcast, economists Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok made an unexpected choice for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics—Ethereum co-founder ...