Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu
Acemoglu in 2016
Born
Kamer Daron Acemoğlu

(1967-09-03) September 3, 1967 (age 57)
Istanbul, Turkey
CitizenshipTurkey and United States
SpouseAsu Ozdaglar
Academic background
EducationUniversity of York (BA)
London School of Economics (MSc, PhD)
ThesisEssays in microfoundations of macroeconomics: contracts and macroeconomic performance (1992)
Doctoral advisorKevin W. S. Roberts
InfluencesJoel MokyrKenneth SokoloffDouglass NorthSeymour Martin LipsetBarrington Moore
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical economy
Economic growth
Development economics
Labour economics
School or traditionNew institutional economics
Institutions
Doctoral studentsRobert ShimerMark AguiarPol AntràsGabriel CarrollMelissa DellBenjamin JonesUfuk Akcigit
Awards
Website

Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (Turkish: [daˈɾon aˈdʒemoːɫu];,[1] Armenian: Տարոն Աճեմօղլու; born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian descent who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, and was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019.[2] He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, and the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024.[2][3]

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.[4]

In 2024, Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, and Simon Johnson were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their comparative studies in prosperity between states and empires.[5] He is regarded as a centrist with a focus on institutions, poverty and econometrics.

  1. ^ "Prof. Dr. Daron Acemoğlu'na Nobel Ekonomi Ödülü'nü Getiren Makale" [The Article that brought Prof. Dr. Daron Acemoglu the Nobel Prize in Economics]. YouTube (in Turkish). BloombergHT. October 15, 2024. Retrieved October 15, 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Daron Acemoğlu CV August 2022" (PDF). economics.mit.edu.
  3. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved October 14, 2024.
  4. ^ "192,209 Authors". opensyllabus.org. Open Syllabus. Archived from the original on September 21, 2022.
  5. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved October 14, 2024.

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