It is one of those simple questions that's too big to answer: Why do some nations fail while others succeed? Consider the ...

Plus, concern again about the Whyalla steel works and the green steel future that's "too important to fail". And what Yahya Sinwar’s death means for Hamas, the hostages and the war in Gaza.

Without getting too detailed about the intricacies of their work, their research makes clear that there are reasons why some ...

By Dr Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington DC By now you know that the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to two MIT economists, Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...

The work of three scholars on how institutions shape economic development does not factor in the cost of colonialism while ...

The Nobel Prize in Economics generates an implied hierarchy of knowledge, and rewards particular ways of thinking. This has ...

Their warning builds on the insights of Milton Friedman, the famous free-market economist who “believed the limitations on ...

What does the decision to grant the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson mean for South Africa? I would say, more than you might think.

It was the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that announced the winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics at a press conference in Stockholm last week. They were Daron Acemoglu of Massachusetts ...

Once you only look at the 28 countries with non-synthetic data, there’s no relationship between settler mortality and present ...

The first contribution of the online symposium explores the ineffectiveness of anti-racism laws. It raises the leading question whether their underperformance is a result of unrealistic expectations ...

A trio of economists just won a Nobel prize for their insights into how democratic and other inclusive institutions are ...