Prize Lecture: Simon Johnson – Disease Environments, Mortality of Europeans, and Creation of Institutions in the Colonial Era
Simon JohnsonNobel LaureateStockholm University
Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences
33:48·2025·research level·Public Colloquium
Simon Johnson presents his Nobel Prize lecture, elucidating the long-term impact of disease environments and European mortality rates on the formation of institutions and subsequent economic prosperity in former colonial territories. This work connects historical epidemiological conditions to modern institutional development.
Simon Johnson delivered his prize lecture "Disease Environments, the Mortality of Europeans, and the Creation of Institutions in the Colonial Era" on 8 December 2024 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was introduced by Professor John Hassler, member of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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