Rule of law is what allows us to grow. Acemoglu won a nobel prize showing that institutions cause growth. Destroy institutions and you'll undershoot potential.
...in American culture
and most nobel prize winners have majority support. If you have objections to acemoglu, please show me the majority of economists that object to him?
It's commonly called the Nobel prize of economics. That it's not a classic Nobel prize is mostly finance jargon.
> prize itself is mostly awarded to neoliberalists economists
Source? The period in which neoliberal economics won the prize was when neoliberal economics was in vogue (and most successful and producing useful theories).