Daron Acemoglu is Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics in the Department
of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has received a B.A. in
economics at the University of York, 1989, M.Sc. in mathematical economics and econometrics
at the London School of Economics, 1990, and Ph.D. in economics at the London
School of Economics in 1992.
He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and
the Society of Labor Economists. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including
the inaugural T. W. Shultz Prize from the University of Chicago in 2004, and the
inaugural Sherwin Rosen Award for outstanding contribution to labor economics in 2004,
Distinguished Science Award from the Turkish Sciences Association in 2006, and the John
von Neumann Award, Rajk College, Budapest in 2007.
He was also the recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, awarded every two
years to the best economist in the United States under the age of 40 by the American Economic
Association, and the Erwin Plein Nemmers prize awarded every two years for work
of lasting significance in economics. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of
Utrecht and Bosporus University.
His research interests include political economy, economic development and growth,
human capital theory, growth theory, innovation, search theory, network economics, and
learning.
His books include Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (jointly with
James A. Robinson), which was awarded the Woodrow Wilson and the William Riker
prizes, Introduction to Modern Economic Growth, and Why Nations Fail: The Origins of
Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (jointly with James A. Robinson), which has become a
New York Times bestseller.
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