The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded this year to the Turkish economist Daren Acemoglu and the British Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for their work analyzing the way in which institutions are “constituted and affect the prosperity” of countries , according to an announcement made Monday. by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Some works that have shed light on the causes of inequalities between countries
The three economists who received this year’s prestigious prize worth 11 million Swedish crowns (around 970,000 euros, $1.1 million) work in the United States.
