Born to Armenian parents in a middle-class family in Turkey in the late 1960s, Daron Acemoglu grew up during a tense period of political unrest and economic crises, and he would speculate why Turkey’s ...

Daron Acemoglu is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a 2024 Nobel Laureate in economics. He has researched how successful nations rely on strong, reliable institutions. He ...

Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson have written a long, eloquent book arguing that technological progress is a decidedly mixed bag. They believe that the power of the state can and should be used to ...

“Why Nations Fail” author discusses the connection between inclusive institutions and economic growth, and why COVID-19 could have long-term effects on state-society relations ·MIT Economics Professor ...

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity, by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (PublicAffairs, 560 pp., $32) Is progress good? Despite the subjective nature of the ...

STOCKHOLM — The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to three economists who have studied why some countries are rich and others poor and have documented that freer, open societies are ...

This week, Project Syndicate catches up with Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Economics at MIT. Project Syndicate: You argue that the goal of creating good jobs “should guide policymakers’ approach to ...

CHICAGO, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), announced its 15th Innovative ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Editor's note: Daron Acemoglu, one of the leading experts on the effects of technology, was awarded ...

MIT economist and freshly minted Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu (with whom I podcasted in 2017) has outlined three emerging “epochal” challenges for the American economy. If you tried to guess them, ...