STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel memorial prize in economics has been awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research into differences in prosperity between nations.

To boil down this year’s economics Nobel to a single sentence: “Institutions matter.” The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson for ...

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STOCKHOLM — The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to three economists who have studied why some countries are rich and others poor and have documented that freer, open ...

The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond, and Philip H. Dybvig of the United States “for their research on banks and financial crises,” it was announced ...

Awarded for the first time in 1969, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science is the ... Meet the Nobel laureates in economics who call America home. (Complete profiles of all Nobelists appear ...

This year's winners came as no surprise within Economics circles Three researchers who delved into the asymmetries of how countries prosper differently were awarded the Economics Nobel Prize ...

Immigrants represent a 1/3 of US Nobel Prizes. Undermining university independence risks stalling innovation in vital ...

Joseph Stiglitz, the famous economist and professor at Columbia University in New York, and winner of the Nobel Prize in ...