Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor at MIT and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, the British Academy of Sciences, the Turkish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists. He is also a member of the Group of Thirty. He is the author of six books, including New York Times bestseller Why Nations Fail: Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (joint with James A. Robinson), Introduction to Modern Economic Growth, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (with James A. Robinson), and Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (with Simon Johnson). His academic work covers a wide range of areas, including political economy, economic development, economic growth, technological change, inequality, labor economics and economics of networks. He received the inaugural T. W. Shultz Prize from the University of Chicago in 2004, and the inaugural Sherwin Rosen Award for outstanding contribution to labor economics in 2004, Distinguished Science Award from the Turkish Sciences Association in 2006, the John von Neumann Award, Rajk College, Budapest in 2007, the Carnegie Fellowship in 2017, the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize in 2018, the Global Economy Prize in 2019, and the CME Mathematical and Statistical Research Institute prize in 2021. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in 2012, and the 2016 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Utrecht, the Bosphorus University, University of Athens, Bilkent University, the University of Bath, Ecole Normale Superieure, Saclay Paris, and the London Business School.

Research

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

Regulating Transformative Technologies

American Economic Review: Insights

September 2024

Daron Acemoglu, Todd Lensman

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

Learning from Ricardo and Thompson: Machinery and Labor in the Early Industrial Revolution, and in the Age of AI

Annual Review of Economics

August 2024

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

Tasks at Work: Comparative Advantage, Technology and Labor Demand

Handbook of Labor Economics

Forthcoming

Daron Acemoglu, Fredric Kong, Pascual Restrepo

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy making

PNAS Nexus

June 2024

Valerio Capraro, Austin Lentsch, Daron Acemoglu, Selin Akgun, Aisel Akhmedova, Ennio Bilancini, Jean-François Bonnefon, Pablo Brañas-Garza, Luigi Butera, Karen M Douglas, Jim A C Everett, Gerd Gigerenzer, Christine Greenhow, Daniel A Hashimoto, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Jolanda Jetten, Simon Johnson, Werner H Kunz, Chiara Longoni, Pete Lunn, Simone Natale, Stefanie Paluch, Iyad Rahwan, Neil Selwyn, Vivek Singh, Siddharth Suri, Jennifer Sutcliffe, Joe Tomlinson, Sander van der Linden, Paul A M Van Lange, Friederike Wall, Jay J Van Bavel, Riccardo Viale

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

Automation and Rent Dissipation: Implications for Wages, Inequality, and Productivity

May 2024

Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

The Urgent Need to Tax Digital Advertising

April 2024

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

The Simple Macroeconomics of AI

Economic Policy

April 2024 (Revised May 2024)

Daron Acemoglu

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

Bottlenecks: Sectoral Imbalances and the US Productivity Slowdown

NBER Macroeconomics Annual

Robots and Workers: Evidence from the Netherlands

March 2023

Daron Acemoglu, Hans Koster, Ceren Ozgen

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

Distorted Innovation: Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?

January 2023

Daron Acemoglu

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

Automation and the Workforce: A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey

November 2022

Daron Acemoglu, Gary Anderson, David Beede, Cathy Buffington, Eric Childress, Emin Dinlersoz, Lucia Foster, Nathan Goldschlag, John Haltiwanger, Zachary Kroff, Pascual Restrepo, Nikolas Zolas