Nobel Prize in Economics, 2024

October 14, 2024,

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 to:

Daron Acemoglu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Simon Johnson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

James A. Robinson
University of Chicago, IL, USA

This year’s laureates in the economic sciences, demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for the country’s prosperity.

Earlier this year, James Robinson, ERF Senior Associate and Daron Acemoglu, joined ERF 30th Annual Conference: Tragedies of Regional Conflicts and Promises of Peacebuilding to share with the ERF network a panoramic political economy perspective of MENA, and AI and Future of Work.

James Robinson, Professor, University of Chicago and ERF Senior Associate,
Keynote Speaker: Plenary 1: Panoramic Political Economy Perspective of MENA, 21 April, 2024.

Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, MIT,
Keynote Speaker: Plenary 4: AI and Future of Work, 22 April 2024

Congratulations to our distinguished Nobel Prize laureates.