Harvard economist Roland Fryer argues that fear of giving offense hinders scientific progress. Photo: Free to Choose Network ...

They have made themselves irrelevant to our understanding of how most Americans experience the economy.

Mainstream economists often base their analysis upon assumptions that do not square with reality. Austrian economics, on the ...

The Bengali boy from Shillong, whose parents migrated from Bangladesh, studied from Delhi School of Economics and Trinity College, Cambridge. As a theoretical and empirical economist, his ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson examined how different kinds of European colonization led to some nations being rich and others poor.

Early man first invented tools. Then he invented jewellery. Archeologists have discovered strings of shells, believed to have been necklaces or earrings, that are 150,000 years old—more ancient than ...

Previous recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics include Claudia Goldin, Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig. American economist Milton Friedman is a notable winner, awarded the ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday (October 14, 2024) awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for “studies of how institutions ...

The economics award is not one of the original prizes for science, literature and peace created in the will of dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel and first awarded in 1901, but a later ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”, the Royal Swedish Academy of ...

The economics prize is officially known as Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Unlike the prizes for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace ...

Three economists at US universities have been awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on how institutions affect wealth inequality. Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and ...