Daron Acemoglu
Economist and MIT professor
Daron Acemoglu is a Turkish-American economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who shared the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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Born 1967 in Istanbul, Turkey
About Daron Acemoglu
Acemoglu was born in 1967 and has been at MIT since 1993. He holds the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics chair and became an Institute Professor in 2019. His main research areas are political economy, development economics and labor economics. He won the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005. In 2024 he shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson. He wrote Why Nations Fail with James Robinson, and it became a New York Times bestseller. He also wrote Power and Progress with Simon Johnson.