The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 was awarded jointly to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity"..

The book, Why Nations Fail was reviewed by Luis Fernández-Galiano in Arquitectura Viva 149 (2013) under the title The Extractive Elites, and The Narrow Corridor in Arquitectura Viva 222 (2020) under Origin and Destiny.

The Nobel Prize: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024