The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Jul., 1978), pp. 271-281 (11 pages) The influence of institutional economics is determined more by the contributions of outstanding ...

The JEI has been internationally respected journal of institutional and evolutionary economics since its founding in 1967. The journal has published articles that describe aspects of evolving economic ...

ON MONDAY Douglass North died at the age of 95. Mr North was an American economic historian, who shared the Nobel prize in economic science with Robert Fogel, another economic historian, in 1993.

While finance historians credit Harry Markowitz as the father of Modern Portfolio Theory, he enjoys pointing to Shakespeare as an early advocate of diversified portfolios. In “The Merchant of Venice,” ...

Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded both this year and last year to scholars who, in different ways, emphasised the importance of institutions to economic growth.Joel Mokyr, a 2025 laureate, used ...

This year, the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to three economists, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson, who argue that institutions are the fundamental cause of long-run ...