▪️Full name: Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (1967)
🏫Education:
B.Sc. in Economics (University of York )
M.S. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics (London School of Economics)
Ph.D. in Economics (London School of Economics)
▪️Position:
Professor of Economics, M.I.T. (1993-present)
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic Growth (1999-present)
Editor-in-chief of Econometrica (2011-2015)
Member National Academy of Sciences
Fellow Turkish Academy of Science
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow of the Econometric Society
▪️Field: Political Economy, Economic Development, Economic Theory, Income and Wage Inequality, Human Capital and Training, Labor Economics
📝Top 3 Papers:
The colonial origins of comparative development: An empirical investigation (The American economic review)
Reversal of fortune: Geography and institutions in the making of the modern world income distribution (The Quarterly journal of economics)
Introduction to economic growth (Journal of economic theory)
🎧Podcast:
Daron Acemoglu on Shared Prosperity and Good Jobs (Econtalks)
Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail (Econtalks)
📽Presentation:
Remaking the Post-Covid World (Oxford Union Web Series)
The promises and risks of artificial intelligence: A conversation with Daron Acemoglu (Brookings Institution)
👩🎓Famous Students:
Pol Antras (Harvard University)
Melissa Dell (Harvard University)
Robert Shimer (University of Chicago)
Mark Aguiar (Princeton University)
🏆Honors & Awards:
Fordham Trailblazer Award (2020)
Honorary Doctorate, London Business School (2018)
Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize, University of Toulouse Global Economy Prize (2018)
Honorary Doctorate, Bilkent University (2015)
Max Schmidheiny Award, St. Gallen Symposium (2015)
Honorary Doctorate, University of Athens (2014)
Nemmers Prize in Economics (2012)
Honorary Doctorate, Bosporus University (2011)
Honorary Doctorate, University of Utrecht (2008)
William Riker Prize for Best Book Published in Political Economy (2006)
John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association (2005)
Sherwin Rosen Award for outstanding contributions
to labor economics, the Society of Labor Economics (2004)
Adam Smith Memorial Prize, University of York (1989)
📚Top Books:
Why nations fail: The origins of power, prosperity, and poverty (Currency Press)
Institutions as a fundamental cause of long-run growth (Handbook of economic growth)
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (Penguin Books)
Economics (Pearson)
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