"One interesting aspect of this year’s Nobel is that almost all of AJRs Nobel work is accessible to the public because it has come primarily through popular books rather than papers." I've only read Acemoglu and Robinson's The Narrow Corridor, but recommend it! Alex Tabarrok on today's econ Nobel:
Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson Win Nobel Prize for Institutions and Prosperity - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Nobel prize goes to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson for their work on institutions, prosperity, and economic growth. Here is a key piece summarizing their work: Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth. This paper develops the empirical and theoretical case that differences in economic institutions are the fundamental cause of […]
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