University of York (BA) London School of Economics (MSc, PhD)
Spouse
Asu Ozdaglar
Academic career
Institution
London School of Economics (1989–1993)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1993–present)
Field
Political economy Economic growth Development economics Labour economics
School or tradition
New institutional economics
Doctoral advisor
Kevin W. S. Roberts
Doctoral students
Robert Shimer • Mark Aguiar • Pol Antràs • Gabriel Carroll • Melissa Dell • Benjamin Jones • Ufuk Akcigit
Influences
Joel Mokyr • Kenneth Sokoloff • Douglass North • Seymour Martin Lipset • Barrington Moore
Awards
John Bates Clark Medal (2005)
John von Neumann Award (2007)
Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics (2012)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2016)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (Turkish:[daˈɾonaˈdʒemoːɫu]; born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish-born American economist who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics.[1] He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, and was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019.[1]
Born to Armenian parents in Istanbul, Acemoglu received a BA from the University of York in 1989, and a PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1992. He lectured at LSE for a year before joining the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005. Acemoglu is best known for his work on political economy. He has authored hundreds of papers, many of them with his long-time collaborators Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson. With Robinson, he co-authored the books Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (2006) and Why Nations Fail (2012). The latter, an influential book on the role that institutions play in shaping nations' economic outcomes, received wide scholarly and media attention. Described as a centrist, he believes in a regulated market economy. He regularly comments on political issues, economic inequality, and a variety of specific policies.
Acemoglu ranked third, behind Paul Krugman and Greg Mankiw, in the list of "Favorite Living Economists Under Age 60" in a 2011 survey among American economists. In 2015, he was named the most cited economist of the past 10 years per Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) data. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Acemoglu is the third most frequently cited author on college syllabi for economics courses after Mankiw and Krugman.[2]
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Kamer DaronAcemoğlu (Turkish: [daˈɾon aˈdʒemoːɫu]; born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish-born American economist who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute...
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the name include: DaronAcemoglu (born 1967), Armenian-American economist Daron Alcorn (born 1971), American football player Daron Beneby (born 1984)...
– Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol 11, issue 2, pp. 207–230 DaronAcemoglu and James A. Robinson in their book Why Nations Fail reject the relationship...
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theories of the wisdom of the crowd. In Why Nations Fail, economists DaronAcemoglu and James A. Robinson argue that democracies are more economically successful...
economist under the age of 60, after Paul Krugman, Greg Mankiw and DaronAcemoglu. Levitt attended St. Paul Academy and Summit School in St. Paul, Minnesota...
several research directions in the Soviet and Russian nuclear technology DaronAcemoglu, among the 20 most cited economists in the world, winner of the 2005...
Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0143122012. Daron, Acemoglu; Wolitzky, Alexander (April 2014). "Cycles of Conflict: An Economic...
385,488 Americans indicated either full or partial Armenian ancestry. DaronAcemoglu, economist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Viken Babikian,...
jobs by 2025. From 1990 to 2007, a study in the U.S. by MIT economist DaronAcemoglu showed that an addition of one robot for every 1,000 workers decreased...
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as the French Revolution's "most significant export." According to DaronAcemoglu, Davide Cantoni, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson the French Revolution...
Historical Perspective: A Book of Essays (1962). A more recent work is DaronAcemoglu and James A. Robinson's Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity...
Economics Association's award for the best thesis of the year. He also met DaronAcemoglu for the first time at the LSE, who was also a PhD student at the time...
Philippines: Origins and Dreams', New Left Review, I (169), May–June 1988 DaronAcemoglu and James Robinson, Cacique Democracy' MacLeod, "Cacique, Caciquismo"...
N. S. Cheung, Avner Greif, Yoram Barzel, Claude Ménard (economist), DaronAcemoglu, and four Nobel laureates—Ronald Coase, Douglass North, Elinor Ostrom...
shocks, human capital investment, and economic equality. A 2019 study by DaronAcemoglu, Suresh Naidu, Pascual Restrepo, and James A. Robinson found that democracy...
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