The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday (October 14, 2024) awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for “studies of how institutions ...

"Reducing the vast differences in income between countries is one of our time's greatest challenges," said Jakob Svensson, Chair of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences. "They have ...

One of the best-known gauges is the Economic Policy Uncertainty Index, which tallies how many news stories in major publications cite uncertainty, the economy, and policy. Others track the difference ...

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel has this year been awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson. The three US-based economists "have ...

For years, documenting protests in China was a task for political activists. Now, it’s capturing the attention of investors ...

In the textbooks, each of those relationships is drawn as a curve in a graph. First is the IS ... the Reserve Bank can increase economic output and employment by lowering the interest rate.

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While in many places this was aimed at exploiting the indigenous population, in other places it laid the foundations for inclusive political and economic systems. “The laureates have shown that ...

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The economic successes of Asheville, North Carolina and Tampa, Florida, have been the envy of many cities across the United States. Both metropolitan areas registered an unemployment rate of 3.1% ...

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These are very light paraphrases of statements he made today at the Economic Club of Chicago, in a sometimes combative interview with the Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwait. Yet voters ...