Simon Johnson
Economist and MIT professor
Simon Johnson is a British-American economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a former Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund. He shared the 2024 Nobel prize in economics.
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American Born in Sheffield, United Kingdom
About Simon Johnson
Simon Johnson is a British-American economist. Since 2004 he has held the Ronald A. Kurtz chair in entrepreneurship at MIT's Sloan business school. Before that, he was on the faculty of Duke University's Fuqua business school from 1991 to 1997. Johnson was the International Monetary Fund's Chief Economist from March 2007 until the close of August 2008. From 2008 to 2019 he also held a senior fellowship at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. In 2024 he shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, for their comparative research on national prosperity. His book in our catalog is Power and Progress.