Why professors of the Masachusette Technology Institute (Cambridge, USA) Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, and Professor of the University of Chicago (USA) James Robinson received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024 and how important their research is for economic science, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Department of Economic History of the SO "Institute for the Economics and Forecasting of the NAS of Ukraine" Victoria Nebrat tells in an exclusive article "Causes of nations, as well as the origin of wealth, was clarified", posted on the website of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on December 11, 2024 (the rubric "Academy comments") [in Ukrainian].