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Today's Nobel economic prize goes to three U.S.-based scholars who study how the social institutions countries inherit can make or break economies.
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This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT and James A. Robinson at the University of Chicago. The three focused on how social institutions affect poverty and wealth within and among countries. We’ll discuss some of their research findings.
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