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Daron Acemoglu

Faculty Director

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

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 GrowthThe 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.

Research

Applying AI to Extend Worker Expertise

Regulating Transformative Technologies

American Economic Review: Insights

September 2024

Daron Acemoglu, Todd Lensman

Regulating Transformative Technologies

Labor Market Consequences of Technological Change

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

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

Labor Market Consequences of Technological Change

Advanced Technology Adoption: Selection or Causal Effects?

AEA Papers and Proceedings

May 2023

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

Advanced Technology Adoption: Selection or Causal Effects?

Labor Market Consequences of Technological Change

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

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

The rise of age-friendly jobs

The Journal of the Economics of Ageing

October 2022

Daron Acemoglu, Nicolaj Søndergaard Mühlbach, Andrew Scott

The rise of age-friendly jobs

Labor Market Consequences of Technological Change

Does the US Tax Code Favor Automation?

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

March 2020

Daron Acemoglu, Andrea Manera, Pascual Restrepo

Does the US Tax Code Favor Automation?

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