US-based economists have examined the factors which influence a strong or weak economy in countries. The findings of Daron Acemoglu is a Turkish-American economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Simon Johnson is a British economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and James Robinson have won them the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics. Roy Havemann, from the Bureau of Economic Research author of How to Fix (or Unfck) A Country, which has an introduction by Tito Mboweni weighs in on the topic.