Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor at MIT, Faculty Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work, and a Research Affiliate at MIT Blueprint Labs. He is 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. Daron Acemoglu has 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 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2024 (with Co-Laureates Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson), 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 Bosporus University, University of Athens, Bilkent University, the University of Bath, Ecole Normale Superieure, Saclay Paris, and the London Business School.
Daron Acemoglu
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Labor Market Consequences of Technological Change · Determinants of Income and Wealth Inequality · Effects of Globalization on Incomes, Innovation, and Growth · Applying AI to Extend Worker Expertise
Research
Multidimensional Signaling and the Rise of Cultural Politics
February 2026
Multidimensional Signaling and the Rise of Cultural PoliticsApplying AI to Extend Worker Expertise
AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse
February 2026
AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge CollapseLabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Automation and Polarization
January 2026
Automation and PolarizationLabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Technology and Economic Development
January 2026
Technology and Economic DevelopmentLabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Automation and Rent Dissipation: Implications for Wages, Inequality, and Productivity
May 2024 (updated November 2025)
Automation and Rent Dissipation: Implications for Wages, Inequality, and ProductivityDeterminants of Income and Wealth Inequality
Nobel Lecture: Institutions, Technology and Prosperity
June 2025
Nobel Lecture: Institutions, Technology and ProsperityLabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Employment and Community: Socioeconomic Cooperation and Its Breakdown
December 2024
Employment and Community: Socioeconomic Cooperation and Its BreakdownLabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Online Business Models, Digital Ads, and User Welfare
September 2024
Online Business Models, Digital Ads, and User WelfareApplying AI to Extend Worker Expertise
Regulating Transformative Technologies
September 2024
Regulating Transformative TechnologiesLabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Learning from Ricardo and Thompson: Machinery and Labor in the Early Industrial Revolution, and in the Age of AI
August 2024
Learning from Ricardo and Thompson: Machinery and Labor in the Early Industrial Revolution, and in the Age of AILabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Tasks at Work: Comparative Advantage, Technology and Labor Demand
Forthcoming
Tasks at Work: Comparative Advantage, Technology and Labor DemandLabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy making
June 2024
The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy makingLabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
The Urgent Need to Tax Digital Advertising
April 2024
The Urgent Need to Tax Digital AdvertisingApplying AI to Extend Worker Expertise
The Simple Macroeconomics of AI
April 2024 (Revised May 2024)
The Simple Macroeconomics of AIEffects of Globalization on Incomes, Innovation, and Growth
Bottlenecks: Sectoral Imbalances and the US Productivity Slowdown
April 2024
Bottlenecks: Sectoral Imbalances and the US Productivity SlowdownApplying AI to Extend Worker Expertise
From Automation to Augmentation: Redefining Engineering Design and Manufacturing in the Age of NextGen-AI
March 2024
From Automation to Augmentation: Redefining Engineering Design and Manufacturing in the Age of NextGen-AILabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Navigating the Future of Work: Perspectives on Automation, AI, and Economic Prosperity
March 2024
Navigating the Future of Work: Perspectives on Automation, AI, and Economic ProsperityDeterminants of Income and Wealth Inequality
Atlantic Council 2024 Atlas: Creating another wave of democracy
February 2024
Atlantic Council 2024 Atlas: Creating another wave of democracyLabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Testimony: The Philosophy of AI
November 2023
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Testimony: The Philosophy of AILabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
US Senate ‘AI Insight’ Workforce Forum Testimony
November 2023
US Senate ‘AI Insight’ Workforce Forum TestimonyApplying AI to Extend Worker Expertise
Can We Have Pro-Worker AI? Choosing a path of machines in service of minds
September 2023
Can We Have Pro-Worker AI? Choosing a path of machines in service of mindsLabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
May 2023
Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology and ProsperityLabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Advanced Technology Adoption: Selection or Causal Effects?
May 2023
Advanced Technology Adoption: Selection or Causal Effects?Labor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Robots and Workers: Evidence from the Netherlands
March 2023
Robots and Workers: Evidence from the NetherlandsLabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Distorted Innovation: Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?
January 2023
Distorted Innovation: Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?Labor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Automation and the Workforce: A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey
November 2022
Automation and the Workforce: A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business SurveyDeterminants of Income and Wealth Inequality
Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality
September 2022
Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in U.S. Wage InequalityLabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies
April 2022
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online VacanciesDeterminants of Income and Wealth Inequality
Eclipse of Rent-Sharing: The Effects of Managers’ Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark
March 2022
Eclipse of Rent-Sharing: The Effects of Managers’ Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and DenmarkLabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
AI and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies
December 2020
AI and Jobs: Evidence from Online VacanciesLabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets
April 2020
Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor MarketsLabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Does the US Tax Code Favor Automation?
March 2020
Does the US Tax Code Favor Automation?Labor Market Consequences of Technological Change
Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
March 2019
Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates LaborLabor Market Consequences of Technological Change
The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment
June 2018
The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and EmploymentRelevant News
News
NYT Opinion: ‘Surveil, Govern and Control’: What Could Go Wrong?
Mar 17, 2026
Media Coverage
NYT Opinion: ‘Surveil, Govern and Control’: What Could Go Wrong?News
‘Pro-worker AI,’ streaming fatalities, and other fascinating new economic studies
Mar 10, 2026
Media Coverage
‘Pro-worker AI,’ streaming fatalities, and other fascinating new economic studiesNews
Project Syndicate: Reclaiming Democracy From the Market
Mar 6, 2026
Interview
Project Syndicate: Reclaiming Democracy From the MarketNews
Testimony from Mark Muro: How the U.S. can maintain its edge in AI without leaving workers behind
Mar 5, 2026
Media Coverage
Testimony from Mark Muro: How the U.S. can maintain its edge in AI without leaving workers behindNews
The Hamilton Project: Event recap—AI + work: Building pro-worker AI
Feb 27, 2026
Event Recording
The Hamilton Project: Event recap—AI + work: Building pro-worker AI
Podcast
NPR: Is AI really coming for white collar jobs?
Feb 26, 2026
Interview
NPR: Is AI really coming for white collar jobs?Podcast
MIT Sloan Management Review: AI Is Not Improving Productivity: Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu
Feb 24, 2026
Interview
MIT Sloan Management Review: AI Is Not Improving Productivity: Nobel Laureate Daron AcemogluNews
Speech by Federal Reserve Governor Barr on artificial intelligence and the labor market
Feb 17, 2026
Media Coverage
Speech by Federal Reserve Governor Barr on artificial intelligence and the labor marketNews
The Atlantic: America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs
Feb 10, 2026
Interview
The Atlantic: America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to JobsWork With Us
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