In the Media

Prof. Daron Acemoglu and Prof. Simon Johnson have been honored with the Nobel Prize in economics sciences for their work tracing “the institutional roots of national prosperity by exploring the vastly different outcomes in former European colonies,” explains Scott Horsley for NPR’s Morning Edition. “Democracies are going through a rough patch," says Acemoglu. "And it is in some sense quite crucial that they reclaim the high ground of better governance, cleaner governance, and delivering sort of the promise of democracy to a broad range of people."