2024 Nobel Prize to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 was awarded jointly to Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States), Simon Johnson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States) and James A. Robinson (University of Chicago, United States) for research on prosperity gaps between countries — specifically how European colonization led to some nations being rich while others are poor. We congratulate the winners with this great achievement.
James A. Robinson taught the 2017 Tinbergen Institute Lectures in Economics at Tinbergen Institute on 'State, Society and Development'' On the occasion of the Lectures, then PhD student Albert Jan Hummel (University of Amsterdam), interviewed Robinson about his work and field of economics. Read the interview 'On the Interplay between Politics and Economics' here.
The Tinbergen Institute Lecture series are annual series of lectures in Economics and Econometrics for graduate students in the Tinbergen Institute Research Master program's and qualified internal and external research master and PhD students. For more information about Tinbergen Institute Lectures, plase visit: Tinbergen Institute Lectures – Tinbergen.nl.
Isaiah Andrews (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States) will give the Tinbergen Institute Econometrics Lectures 2025 on May 22-23 and Peter Hull (Brown University, United States) will give the Tinbergen Institute Economics Lectures 2025 on May 26-28,.
Other Nobel Prize laureates who taught in the Tinbergen Institute Economics or Econometrics Lecture Series are Guido Imbens (Econometrics 2018), Christopher Sims (Econometrics 2015) and David Card (Economics 2010),
For more information about the Nobel Prize, please visit The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 (nobelprize.org).