Person/Daron Acemoglu

• Daron Acemoglu

  • Bio

    • Turkish-American economist, MIT Institute Professor, and 2024 Nobel laureate in economic sciences.
    • Best known for work on how institutions shape prosperity, democracy, inequality, labor, and long-run economic development.
    • A useful thought leader for questioning technological inevitability: he tends to ask who benefits, who loses power, and what kinds of institutions channel innovation toward shared prosperity.
    • On AI, his stance is not simple rejection but sustained skepticism toward hype, concentrated corporate control, labor displacement, weakened democracy, and systems that make people less capable rather than more capable.
    • His work with Simon Johnson on Power and Progress and related research argues for a more pro-worker, pro-human direction for AI and automation.

  • Suggested Tags

    • economics
    • political economy
    • institutions
    • democracy
    • inequality
    • automation
    • artificial intelligence
    • labor

  • Related

    • MIT Sloan faculty page
    • Nobel Prize facts page
    • Nobel interview
    • Brookings: The promises and risks of artificial intelligence
    • MIT News on the 2024 Nobel Prize

  • Academic Appointment

    • Institute Professor in the Department of Economics at MIT. MIT Economics faculty biography