







Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won a prize for applying economics to the very things economics is inherently bad at figuring out
Acemoglu, Johnson et Robinson ont expliqué pourquoi certains pays sont riches et d’autres pauvres
traduction française du résumé des travaux de Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson et James A. Robinson (prix Nobel d'économie 2024)

Why Paul Romer won the Nobel Prize in economics - Marginal REVOLUTION
It is hard to do better than Alex’s video on Romer, pretty much definitive and Romer liked it too. Most importantly, Romer won the Prize for seeing how the non-rival nature of ideas can boost ongoing and indeed “endogenous” economic growth. Romer also showed mathematically that this process of growth is bounded, namely that it […]
Misbehaving: the making of behavioral economics
Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career s…

annotations: Que récompense réellement un prix Nobel sur la « croissance économique tirée par l’innovation » ?
traduction française du billet de blog "What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward?" de Beatrice Cherrier
This year’s Nobel prizes prompt soul-searching among economists
The rise of randomised controlled trials looks to some like a retreat from the biggest questions

The world’s most influential economist is oddly unconvincing
Daron Acemoglu is revered. Why?

Book review: Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals, by Derek Wall
Elinor Ostrom was the first and so far the only woman to win the Nobel prize for economics*. She received the award in 2009 for her work on the commons. Ostrom died three years later, leaving behin…

annotations: Institutions et prospérité : zoom sur les travaux des lauréats du Nobel 2024
Blog de sciences économiques et sociales de Martin Anota. Traductions, revues de presse.

On the Ersatz Nobel: The Old Monetary Policy is Dying, and The New Monetary Policy Struggles to be Born
Yesterday the Nobel Prize fake Nobel Prize the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was again awarded. For the unique and bizarre history of this prize, see the piece I wrote five years ago pointing out that this prize was a form of “central bank

6 books recommended by Richard Thaler, Nobel Prize winner and a founding father of behavioral economics
Michael Lewis and Daniel Kahneman topped the list of his favorite authors.

10 Design Principles for Governing the Commons
In 2009, Elinor Ostrom received the Nobel Prize in Economics for her “analysis of economic governance, especially the commons”.
10 Design Principles for Governing the Commons
In 2009, Elinor Ostrom received the Nobel Prize in Economics for her “analysis of economic governance, especially the commons”.

Entre moustiques et nationalisme méthodologique : retour sur le prix de la Banque de Suède
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson et James Robinson, lauréats du « prix Nobel d’économie », proposent une lecture limitée des effets des institutions héritées de l…

Why the super rich are inevitable
Why some mathematicians argue the economy is designed to create a few super rich people – unless we stop it.

Econ Journal Watch: Scholarly Comments on Academic Economics
Econ Journal Watch (EJW) is an online academic journal publishing Comments on economics research, articles appearing in economics journals, and the ec…