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Economists Win Worst Nobel Prize Yet, Asked to Please Stop

Mia and James discuss Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson's recent fake economics Nobel won for being to first economists to discover that history exists. Sources: <a data-ogsc="" data-outlook-id="d56f12b0-7411-42a1-b225-ed42758642ce" href="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.91.4.938">https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.91.4.938</a> <a data-ogsc="" data-outlook-id="60a958e4-274d-4181-9c75-c23df9fef851" href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023118773614">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023118773614</a> <a data-ogsc="" data-outlook-id="65dbd876-8d96-4209-b71a-33b174ae60e4" href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w10481">https://www.nber.org/papers/w10481</a> <a data-ogsc="" data-outlook-id="d5a705e9-e178-48ad-98ee-1a6b3d7db561" href="https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/117/4/1231/1875948">https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/117/4/1231/1875948</a> <a data-ogsc="" data-outlook-id="71cd6c41-4211-4c83-9adc-2b099e231f60" href="https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/10/advanced-economicsciencesprize2024.pdf">https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/10/advanced-economicsciencesprize2024.pdf</a> <a data-ogsc="" data-outlook-id="85028809-11db-4407-9392-2a6be877abc1" href="https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/10/advanced-economicsciencesprize2024.pdf">https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/10/advanced-economicsciencesprize2024.pdf</a> <a data-ogsc="" data-outlook-id="7ce1b962-f141-4bdd-a102-b0e7338f5297" href="https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.91.5.1369">https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.91.5.1369</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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