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American Economic Review

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Nobel Lecture: The Institutional Origins of Shared Prosperity

  • Simon Johnson
American Economic Review
vol. 115, no. 6, June 2025
(pp. 1749–86)
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Citation

Johnson, Simon. 2025. "Nobel Lecture: The Institutional Origins of Shared Prosperity." American Economic Review 115 (6): 1749–86. DOI: 10.1257/aer.115.6.1749

JEL Classification

  • D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
  • D73 Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
  • E02 Institutions and the Macroeconomy
  • F54 Colonialism; Imperialism; Postcolonialism
  • N30 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: General, International, or Comparative
  • N40 Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: General, International, or Comparative
  • O43 Institutions and Growth