Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor at MIT, Faculty Co-Director of the MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative, 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
Faculty Co-Director
Automation, Inequality, and Productivity · Growing Regional Disparities · Changing Rent-Sharing in the Economy · Determinants of Job Quality
Research
Automation, Inequality, and Productivity
Institutions, Technology and Prosperity
January 2025
Institutions, Technology and ProsperityChanging Rent-Sharing in the Economy
Employment and Community: Socioeconomic Cooperation and Its Breakdown
December 2024
Employment and Community: Socioeconomic Cooperation and Its BreakdownAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
Online Business Models, Digital Ads, and User Welfare
September 2024
Online Business Models, Digital Ads, and User WelfareAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
Regulating Transformative Technologies
September 2024
Regulating Transformative TechnologiesAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
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 AIAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
Tasks at Work: Comparative Advantage, Technology and Labor Demand
Forthcoming
Tasks at Work: Comparative Advantage, Technology and Labor DemandAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
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 makingAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
Automation and Rent Dissipation: Implications for Wages, Inequality, and Productivity
May 2024
Automation and Rent Dissipation: Implications for Wages, Inequality, and ProductivityAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
The Urgent Need to Tax Digital Advertising
April 2024
The Urgent Need to Tax Digital AdvertisingAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
The Simple Macroeconomics of AI
April 2024 (Revised May 2024)
The Simple Macroeconomics of AIAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
Bottlenecks: Sectoral Imbalances and the US Productivity Slowdown
April 2024
Bottlenecks: Sectoral Imbalances and the US Productivity SlowdownAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
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-AIAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
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 ProsperityChanging Rent-Sharing in the Economy
Atlantic Council 2024 Atlas: Creating another wave of democracy
February 2024
Atlantic Council 2024 Atlas: Creating another wave of democracyAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
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 AIAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
US Senate ‘AI Insight’ Workforce Forum Testimony
November 2023
US Senate ‘AI Insight’ Workforce Forum TestimonyAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
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 mindsAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
May 2023
Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology and ProsperityAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
Advanced Technology Adoption: Selection or Causal Effects?
May 2023
Advanced Technology Adoption: Selection or Causal Effects?Automation, Inequality, and Productivity
Robots and Workers: Evidence from the Netherlands
March 2023
Robots and Workers: Evidence from the NetherlandsAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
Distorted Innovation: Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?
January 2023
Distorted Innovation: Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?Automation, Inequality, and Productivity
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 SurveyAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality
September 2022
Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in U.S. Wage InequalityAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies
April 2022
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online VacanciesChanging Rent-Sharing in the Economy
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 DenmarkAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
AI and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies
December 2020
AI and Jobs: Evidence from Online VacanciesAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets
April 2020
Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor MarketsAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
Does the US Tax Code Favor Automation?
March 2020
Does the US Tax Code Favor Automation?Automation, Inequality, and Productivity
Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
March 2019
Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates LaborAutomation, Inequality, and Productivity
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
Podcast
MIT New Colossus Project: Daron Acemoglu: Nobel Prize in Economics, AI, Liberal Democracy, Turkey, Armenia
Apr 16, 2025
Interview
MIT New Colossus Project: Daron Acemoglu: Nobel Prize in Economics, AI, Liberal Democracy, Turkey, Armenia
News
TIME: Trump Wants Tariffs to Bring Back U.S. Jobs. They Might Speed Up AI Automation Instead
Apr 9, 2025
Media Coverage
TIME: Trump Wants Tariffs to Bring Back U.S. Jobs. They Might Speed Up AI Automation Instead
Op-Ed
Project Syndicate: Two Models for Agentic AI
Mar 28, 2025
Op-Ed
Project Syndicate: Two Models for Agentic AINews
Common Dreams: The Dems Need a Clear Vision to Move Themselves—and the Country—Forward
Mar 23, 2025
Media Coverage
Common Dreams: The Dems Need a Clear Vision to Move Themselves—and the Country—ForwardNews
Bloomberg: Stumbling Stock Market Raises Specter of Dot-Com Era Reckoning
Mar 23, 2025
Media Coverage
Bloomberg: Stumbling Stock Market Raises Specter of Dot-Com Era ReckoningNews
Planet Money: Fast-er food: A productivity surge at U.S. restaurants
Mar 18, 2025
Media Coverage
Planet Money: Fast-er food: A productivity surge at U.S. restaurantsNews
Nobel Laureate: How The Next Massive Stock Market Crash Unfolds | Daron Acemoglu
Mar 13, 2025
Interview
Nobel Laureate: How The Next Massive Stock Market Crash Unfolds | Daron AcemogluNews
Psychology Today: Taxing Social Media Ads Might Help Us Get Our Attention Back
Mar 12, 2025
Media Coverage
Psychology Today: Taxing Social Media Ads Might Help Us Get Our Attention BackNews
Reshaping Power, Wealth & Democracy through AI – Daron Acemoglu & Joachim Voth
Mar 7, 2025
Interview
Reshaping Power, Wealth & Democracy through AI – Daron Acemoglu & Joachim VothNews
ILR Book Review: Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity
Mar 4, 2025
Media Coverage
ILR Book Review: Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and ProsperityWork With Us
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