The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson, a trio of economists working at U.S. universities, for research on ...

One of the winners, Simon Johnson, joined Geoff Bennett to discuss the award and some of these findings. The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded today to a trio of economists who have published ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson "have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country's prosperity," the Nobel committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of ...

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson for work that advanced the understanding of economic disparities among countries. Acemoglu ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research that explains why societies with poor rule of law ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson will share the prize, which carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million). The Nobel Committee praised the trio for explaining why ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson won the Nobel prize in economics. The Nobel committee said their work helped demonstrate how institutions affect wealth inequality. The three ...

It’s been an exciting 24 hours for the winners of this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which included Simon Johnson and Daron Acemoglu at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

He and fellow MIT professor Simon Johnson, 61, along with James A. Robinson, 64, of the University of Chicago, received the prestigious award by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for their ...

The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research into differences in prosperity between nations and why some countries ...