Daron Acemoglu
Daron Acemoglu | |
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Acemoglu in 2016 | |
| Born | Kamer Daron Acemoğlu September 3, 1967 Istanbul, Turkey |
| Citizenship | Turkey and United States |
| Spouse | Asu Ozdaglar |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of York (BA) London School of Economics (MSc, PhD) |
| Thesis | Essays in microfoundations of macroeconomics: contracts and macroeconomic performance (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | Kevin W. S. Roberts |
| Influences | Joel Mokyr • Kenneth Sokoloff • Douglass North • Seymour Martin Lipset • Barrington Moore |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political economy Economic growth Development economics Labour economics |
| School or tradition | New institutional economics |
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| Doctoral students | Robert Shimer • Mark Aguiar • Pol Antràs • Gabriel Carroll • Melissa Dell • Benjamin Jones • Ufuk Akcigit |
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Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (Turkish: [daˈɾon aˈdʒemoːɫu];, Armenian: Տարոն Աճեմօղլու; born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian descent who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, and was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, and the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024.
Acemoglu ranked third, behind Paul Krugman and Greg Mankiw, in the list of "Favorite Living Economists Under Age 60" in a 2011 survey among American economists. In 2015, he was named the most cited economist of the past 10 years per Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) data. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Acemoglu is the third most frequently cited author on college syllabi for economics courses after Mankiw and Krugman.
In 2024, Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, and Simon Johnson were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their comparative studies in prosperity between states and empires. He is regarded as a centrist with a focus on institutions, poverty and econometrics.