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Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson share Economics Nobel Prize
The Hindu
Nobel prize in Economics 2024: The 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson have been awarded the 2024 Economics Nobel Prize for their “studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
The Nobel Prize 2024: An interactive guide
The Nobel Prize in Economics 2023 was awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes” and was ironically one of very few women ever handed the prize.
Of the 93 laureates honoured since 1969, only three have been women — Goldin in 2023, her compatriot Elinor Ostrom in 2009 and French-American Esther Duflo in 2019.
The economics prize is the only Nobel not among the original five created in the will of Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896.
It was instead created through a donation from the Swedish central bank in 1968, leading detractors to dub it “a false Nobel”.
However, like for the other Nobel science prizes, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decides the winner and follows the same selection process.