Opinion
Simon Johnson: Trump’s tariffs would burden Americans and favour the rich
The US presidential candidate portrays import duties as taxes on other countries, but these will push up household bills in America while favouring its wealthy. Shared prosperity requires tariffs to ...
Nobel economics prize goes to inequality researchers
Three U.S.-based academics won the 2024 Nobel economics prize on Monday for research that explored the aftermath of ...
Three Receive Nobel in Economics for Research on Global Inequality
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson shared the award for their work on explaining the gaps in prosperity between ...
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Two MIT economists share economics sciences Nobel
Two Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors have become the institution's latest Nobel laureates. New laureate Simon ...
Nobel economics prize goes to 3 economists who found that freer societies are more likely to prosper
The three economists “have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity,” the Nobel ...