3 Economists Share 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2024: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announce on Monday that the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2024 will be given to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson. This prize honours recognises their "studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity", the official handles of Nobel Prize posted on social media.

While 1967-born Daron Acemoglu, who is originally from Istanbul, Türkiye, and 1963-born Simon Johnson, from Sheffield, UK, are professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, James A. Robinson, who was born in 1960, teaches at thw University of Chicago, USA.

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences has so far been awarded 56 times, and today's announcement takes the total number of recipients to 96.