“Once one starts to think about” economic growth, “it is hard to think about anything else.” Those words, from the late economist Robert Lucas, explain why we’re so fascinated by international ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 to three American economists whose work established the critical role of ...

Two MIT economists were among those awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday for their decades of work illuminating the relationship between political institutions and economic prosperity.

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 08 - Decent Work and Economic Growth and SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. Why do some countries achieve sustained ...

While a majority of people express a commitment to most of our social and political institutions and the democratic form of governance enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, there are those who relish ...

Listen to part one of this conversation here. Nate Silver says that risk-takers are controlling society. Silver is an election forecaster, and admits that political institutions don’t take as many ...