James A. Robinson

Institute Director of The Pearson Institute; Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor and 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

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...

A Theory of Political Transitions

Citation Robinson, James A, and Daron Acemoglu. 2001. “A Theory of Political Transitions”. American Economic Review 91:938-963. Download (PDF) A Theory of Political Transitions

Social Identity, Inequality, and Conflict

Citation Robinson, James A. 2001. “Social Identity, Inequality, and Conflict”. Economics of Governance 2:85-99. Download (PDF) Social Identity, Inequality, and Conflict