# Daron Acemoglu (@daron-acemoglu)

Daron Acemoglu is a Turkish-American economist whose work spans political economy, development, labor, technology, growth, and economic history. MIT currently lists him as an Institute Professor. He shared the 2024 economics prize with Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Daron Acemoglu's public record._

## Topics

- [Institutions and Development](/@daron-acemoglu/institutions-and-development.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Power and Democracy](/@daron-acemoglu/power-and-democracy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Technology and Labor](/@daron-acemoglu/technology-and-labor.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Institutions and Prosperity](/@daron-acemoglu/institutions-and-prosperity.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Political Power and Change](/@daron-acemoglu/political-power-and-change.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Technology, Work, and AI](/@daron-acemoglu/technology-work-and-ai.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/daron-acemoglu
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2024/acemoglu/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2024/popular-information/
- blog: https://economics.mit.edu/news/daron-acemoglu-ai-productivity-and-future-work

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```

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