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(AFP) Academy of Sciences permanent secretary Jan Teorell of the Nobel assembly delivers a press conference after the announcement of the laureates of the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson during the announcement by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden on October 14, 2024. The Nobel prize in economics was awarded on October 14, 2024, to Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson for research into wealth inequality between nations.

The trio was honoured "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity", the jury said.

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