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Economics Nobel Prize winner calls for robust democratic institutions at Athens event
At the Economist Impact conference in Athens Monday, MIT economist Daron Acemoglu stressed the importance of strong institutions in reinforcing democracy, shortly after being announced as a 2024 Nobel Prize winner in Economics.
Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson win economics Nobel for work on wealth inequality
The Nobel prize in economics was awarded on Monday to Turkish-American Daron Acemoğlu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson for research into wealth inequality between nations.
German police raid 36 homes for “hateful”…social media posts!
German police recently raided the homes of 36 people accused of writing “hateful” posts on social media, with most of the raids targeting right-wing individuals.