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Prof. James A. Robinson has been awarded a share of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 for his research on the root causes of global inequality, including the pivotal roles of institutions.
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A UChicago faculty member since 2015, Robinson said of his time at the University: 鈥淚've felt a kind of intellectual home at the University and in the Harris School and in Department of Political Science. I find the intellectual atmosphere so exciting and rewarding.鈥�
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Robinson speaks at an Oct. 14 news conference at the David Rubenstein Forum.
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President Paul Alivisatos said that Robinson鈥檚 research 鈥渓ays bare how inclusive institutions really matter to the prosperity of a society in the deepest way.鈥�
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Prof. Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, dean of the Harris School of Public Policy, called Robinson 鈥渁 true intellectual, a scholar whose work is of such substantive depth and methodological breadth that it set the agenda in multiple academic fields.鈥�
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Robinson (second from right) was joined at the news conference by a number of UChicago faculty members who are fellow Nobel laureates. They include (from left): Profs. Lars Peter Hansen (won in 2013), Douglas Diamond (2022), Roger Myerson (2007) and Jack Szostak (2009).
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Prof. James A. Robinson with wife Maria Ang茅lica Bautista at their Hyde Park home.
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Robinson speaks at a reception held later in the afternoon in the Keller Center, home to the Harris School of Public Policy.
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