This year’s Nobel prize in economics awarded to team that examined what makes some countries rich and others poor

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson Nobel Prize Outreach

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to three US-based economists who examined the advantages of democracy and the rule of law, and why they are strong in some countries and not others.

Daron Acemoglu is a Turkish-American economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Simon Johnson is a British economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and James Robinson is a British-American economist at the University of Chicago.