
The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to the Americans Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson, for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.
The Swedish Bank Prize for Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is a prize awarded annually for outstanding intellectual contributions to the field of economics.
Who are the winners?
Daron Acemoglu, born in 1967 in Istanbul, Turkey. PhD 1992 from London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
Simon Johnson, born in 1963 in Sheffield, UK. PhD 1989 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
James A. Robinson, born 1960. PhD 1993 from Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Professor at the University of Chicago, IL, USA.