James A. Robinson

James Alan Robinson (English: James Alan Robinson, born February 27, 1960), is a British economic and political scientist, Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and Director of the Pearson Institute for Global Conflict Research and Resolution at the Harris School. From 2004 to 2015, he served as professor at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern California, and University of Melbourne. Robinson examines the causes of differences between countries by focusing on the underlying economic and political institutions that cause some countries to prosper and others to conflict. He is the co-author with Daron Ademoglu of "The Narrow Corridor of Freedom", "Why States Fail", "Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy" and other books. In 2024, Robinson, Daron Adjemooglu and Simon Johnson won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their comparative study of the prosperity of different countries.