(14 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago, Illinois – 14 October 2024
1. Cutaway of Prof. walking out for press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Prof. James A. Robinson, Nobel Laureate, Economic Sciences:
"It has been a rather surreal, out-of-body experience so far today. And I expect that’s going to carry on. So I just like to thank, the president and, and Ethan for his very generous remarks. And just to say, obviously, I’m just super happy. I think, he was telling me this is a very University of Chicago award, and I agree with that. I’ve loved it every second since I’ve been here for the last eight years. Eight and a half years, I’ve felt a kind of intellectual home at the university and in the Harris School and in Department of Political Science, and I find the intellectual atmosphere so exciting and rewarding, and I really appreciate the way the university is kind of believed in me and got me to come here, and it’s been great."
++SEPARATED BY BLACK++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Prof. James A. Robinson, Nobel Laureate, Economic Sciences:
"I just like to thank, you know, Daron and Simon and I, we’ve been working together for 30 years. Almost. Daron and I met in March 1992 when I gave a job talk at the London School of Economics, and he was a PhD student. He sat. I can still see his face. He sat in the front row and kind of objected to almost everything I said like, no, no, if that assumption, if you change assumption to that would never go through that result. I was like, who is this guy? So annoying. That we then we went out to dinner, this Indian restaurant in Covent Garden with the search committee, and he was the sort of the star student. And we sat next to each other and started talking. And as we left the old Saint Clements building from the London School of Economics, which is now demolished, he turned around and looked at me and said, have you read this paper by North and Weingast, which is a very famous paper. And, you know, in some sense we’ve been researching that topic ever since, and I just, you know, it’s I would never have achieved anything without those two."
++SEPARATED BY BLACK++
4.SOUNDBITE (English) Prof. James A. Robinson, Nobel Laureate, Economic Sciences:
"None of us had any idea how to conduct an empirical study, in fact. So then I remember we were we were talking on the telephone, and I was like, talking about how we were going to analyze the data and I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I know, how are we going to do I know how I know how we’re going to do it. I’m like, what? Well, yeah, I know, I know, I know Angus, he’s the guy who knows. So so, so we were able to kind of use a lot of techniques from labor economics and kind of other parts of economics and kind of import them into studying these issues of comparative development, you know, which turned out to be very powerful."
++SEPARATED BY BLACK++
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Prof. James A. Robinson, Nobel Laureate, Economic Sciences:
6. Cutaway
STORYLINE:
One of the three winners of the Nobel economics prize says it has been "surreal" since he got the news early Monday morning.
"Disbelief, I think. I thought my I was sleeping with my phone off," said Prof. James A. Robinson.
"You could think of hundreds of people who get who should get the Nobel Prize. So I never really thought about it very much, but, I was surprised and of course, delighted in a bemused way."
Robinson was awarded the prize Monday along with two other economists who have studied why some countries are rich and others poor and have documented that freer, open societies are more likely to prosper.
Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/912a80f03365452bb85164f49ad959b4
Author: AP Archive
Go to Source
News post in October 19, 2024, 6:04 pm.
Visit Our Sponsor’s:
News Post In – News
