Tag: colonialism

  • 3 economists were awarded the prize for their work on wealth and poverty

    Daron Acemoglu, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics on Tuesday, said, “Rather than asking whether colonialism is bad or bad, we note that different colonial strategies have led to different institutional patterns that have persisted over time.” In their book ‘Why Nations Fail’, Daron and James Robinson argued that it was all because of…