For the year 2024, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to three researchers working in the United States for their work on inequalities in prosperity between countries.
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded on October 14 to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for their research on the factors explaining differences in prosperity between countries.
According to researchers, in societies where the rule of law is weak and institutions exploit the population, growth and positive change are non-existent.
Daron Acemoglu, 57, and Simon Johnson, 61, are professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), while James A. Robinson, 64, teaches at the University of Chicago.
The last prize of the season
According to Jakob Svensson, chair of the Economics Prize committee, the researchers “have pioneered new approaches, both empirical and theoretical, that have significantly enriched our understanding of global inequality.”
As a reminder, the 2024 prize is the 56th awarded since the establishment, in 1968, of the Bank of Sweden prize in memory of Alfred Nobel.
The youngest winner remains the French Esther Duflo, who was 46 years old in 2019, while the oldest was the American Leonid Hurwicz, aged 90 in 2007.
Last year, the Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to the American Claudia Goldin, rewarded for her research on the place of women in the labor market.
It should also be noted that the Nobel Peace Prize will close this series of distinctions for the year 2024, after the award ceremonies in the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace .
Jihen Mkehli
Published on 10/14/24 2:34 p.m.
