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The Nobel prize in economics was awarded on Monday to Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson for research into wealth inequality between nations.

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Christine Olsson/TT News Agency, via Associated Press By Jeanna Smialek Jeanna Smialek is an economics journalist reporting from Washington. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was ...