Watch Daron Acemoglu’s keynote at the 2022 WIDER Development Conference Reducing Inequality, co-organized by UNIANDES and United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research.

Daron Acemoglu delivered a lecture at the Department of Economics at Villanova University.

On May 2, 2023, Simon Johnson participated on a panel discussion on “How Tech Meets Work,” at Data on Purpose 2023: “Making Tech Work for Workers,” hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review and the Ford Foundation.

Date: Friday, May 5, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm PDT
Location: Zoom (details provided to those who register)

Free and open to the public.

Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Time: 6:00 PM ET
Location: Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets required.

On May 17, 2023, Simon Johnson participated in a debate with ITIF President Robert D. Atkinson about technology and prosperity. A recording of the event is available on YouTube.

On May 17, 2023, the Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted a panel discussion on “Harnessing tech for worker power and inclusive prosperity,” including an opening presentation by Daron Acemoglu. Panelists included Simon Johnson, Brian Chen of Data & Society, Virginia Doellgast of Cornell University, and Kathryn Zickuhr of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

On May 18, 2023, the Columbia Center for Political Economy hosted Simon Johnson as part of the Big Idea Book Series.

On Friday, May 19, 2023, Daron Acemoglu participated in a virtual panel discussion on AI Impacts on society with Sendhil Mullainathan (Chicago) and Sarah Kreps (Cornell) as part of a livestreamed public meeting of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

Date: Monday, May 22, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM PDT
Location: The Commonwealth Club of California
110 The Embarcadero
Tonni Rembe Rock Auditorium
San Francisco, CA 94105

Tickets required.

Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: 
855 El Camino Real Ste 74
Palo Alto, CA 94301

Simon Johnson presented a reading from Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Progress.

Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm BST (doors open at 5 pm)
Location: 2 Queen Anne’s Gate, London, SW1H 9AA

Daron Acemoglu and Diane Coyle (Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge) discussed how technology has shaped our economic history, and may shape our economic future, during this launch event for Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity.

Free and open to the public.

Date: Thursday, May 25, 2023
Time: 17:00 – 18:30 BST/12:00-1:30 pm EDT
Location: Sammy Ofer Centre, London Business School, LT18-19 or virtual via Zoom

Free and open to the public.

Date: Thursday, May 25, 2023
Time: 6:00 pm PDT
Location: Seattle Town Hall, The Wyncote NW Forum, 1119 8th Ave (Entrance off Seneca St.), Seattle, Washington 98101

Tickets required.

Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Time: 5-6 pm BST
Location:  Oxford Martin School Lecture Theatre, University of Oxford, 35 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BD

This event was free and open to all.

Date: Thursday, June 1, 2023
Time: 5:30 pm BST
Location: University College London (UCL), Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), 11 Montague St London, WC1B 5BP and online

This hybrid event was free and open to the public.

Date: Saturday, June 3, 2023
Time: 19:00 CEST
Location: Collegio Carlo Alberto – Common room at Festival Internazionale dell’Economia in Turin, Italy

On Tuesday, June 6, 2023, Simon Johnson presented to the Naval Undersea and Surface Warfare Centers as part of the MIT Faculty Lecture series.

Date: Sunday, June 4, 2023
Time: 10 am BST
Location: Baillie Gifford Stage, Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye
Tickets: £12.00

Date: Thursday, June 8, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm EDT
Location: Virtual (via Webex)

This event was free and open to the public.

Date: Friday, June 9
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm EDT
Location: in-person at the Hotel Washington in Washington, D.C. and online via Hopin (registration required).

On June 12, 2023, at 10 am EDT, Simon Johnson participated in a panel discussion with Lant Pritchett and Matt Yglesias hosted by the Brookings Institution and Labor Mobility Partnerships (LaMP).

Date: June 13-14, 2023
Location: Toronto, Canada

The Creative Destruction Lab hosted its final event of the 2022/2023 season, a two-day festival featuring a talk from Daron Acemoglu.

Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Time: 10:15 AM EDT

Location: World Bank Headquarters, Washington D.C., and virtually.

Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Time: 12:30 pm EDT
Location: Online (via Zoom)

The event was free and open to all via Zoom.

Ivo Pezzuto, Professor of Economics & Management at ISM Global Business School, and Simon Johnson joined in discussing Power and Progress: Our 1000-year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity. They debated what technological progress would mean with de-globalization in the coming years.