Project Syndicate: In March, you described the pillars of “an effective anti-[Donald] Trump reform agenda”: a plan to generate more good jobs, reforms to give a majority of Americans a voice in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Matthew Partridge: Many people have produced very high estimates of the productivity gains from AI. Some think it will boost total US GDP by 7% over ten years, while others even project that the ...

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, ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Three economists at US universities have been awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research that explains why societies with poor rule of law and ...

Daron Acemoglu wants to make clear right away that he has nothing against artificial intelligence. He gets the potential. “I’m not an AI pessimist,” he declares seconds into an interview. What makes ...

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 ...

obel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, who’s been dubbed one of the “World’s Top Thinkers” by the popular press, will receive to the 2025 Sage-CASBS Award, the Center for Advanced Study in the ...

Project Syndicate: Last July, you wrote that economists and investors were right to be apprehensive about deficit spending, public debt, and the risk of sustained price growth, but “it would be a ...