James A. Robinson

James Alan Robinson (born 1960) is a British economist and political scientist. He is a professor at the University of Chicago. Robinson has taught at Harvard University between 2004 and 2015 and also at the University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern California and the University of Melbourne.

He studies focuses on what makes countries different by focusing on the economic and political situations that has caused good and bad things in these countries. He wrote several books with Daron Acemoglu, such as The Narrow Corridor, Why Nations Fail and Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy.

In 2024, Robinson, Acemoglu and Simon Johnson were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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