James A. Robinson

University Professor; Harris School of Public Policy and Department of Political Science, University of Chicago; Recipient of the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

Publications

From Current-Day Russia to Porfirio’s Mexico

Citation Robinson, James A. 2003. “From Current-Day Russia to Porfirio’s Mexico”. Studies in Comparative International Development 38:81-92. Download (PDF) From Current-Day Russia to Porfirio’s Mexico Abstract Good economic institutions promote prosperity. Yet bad...

Disease and Development in Historical Perspective

Citation Robinson, James A, Daron Acemoglu, and Simon Johnson. 2003. “Disease and Development in Historical Perspective”. Journal of the European Economic Association 1:397–405. Download (PDF) Disease and Development in Historical Perspective Abstract Health...

An African Success Story: Botswana

Citation Robinson, James A, Daron Acemoglu, and Simon Johnson. 2003. “An African Success Story: Botswana”. Pp. 80-119 in In Search of Prosperity: Analytic Narratives on Economic Growth, edited by Dani Rodrik. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Download (PDF) An...

The Political Economy of the Kuznets Curve

Citation Robinson, James A, and Daron Acemoglu. 2002. “The Political Economy of the Kuznets Curve”. Review of Development Economics 6:183-203. Download (PDF) The Political Economy of the Kuznets Curve

Rotten Parents

Citation Robinson, James A, and Jean-Marie Baland. 2002. “Rotten Parents”. Journal of Public Economics 84:341-356. Download (PDF) Rotten Parents Abstract We study the implications of the trade-off between child quality and child quantity for the efficiency of the rate...

Inefficient Redistribution

Citation Robinson, James A, and Daron Acemoglu. 2001. “Inefficient Redistribution”. American Political Science Review 95:649-661. Download (PDF) Inefficient Redistribution Abstract There are many well-developed theories that explain why governments redistribute...