Daron Acemoglu is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a 2024 Nobel Laureate in economics. He has researched how successful nations rely on strong, reliable institutions. He ...

Nations fail because of their institutions, write Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. The two should know. Along with Simon Johnson, they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for their ...

At a time when headlines speak of artificial intelligence changing everything, Nobel Laureate and MIT economist Daron Acemoglu is urging caution. In a recent conversation with MIT, Acemoglu said the ...

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Will We Squander the AI Opportunity? Feb 19, 2025 Daron Acemoglu worries that the technology is on track to disempower, rather than complement, most of humanity.

From geopolitics to technology, from economics to architecture, the 2025 edition of the Oscar Pomilio Blumm Forum gathered three leading voices of the global debate at the Aurum in Pescara to reflect ...

A special seasonal edition featuring Nobel laureates in economics whose insights inform UBS’s approach to answering complex questions. The 2024 laureate, Daron Acemoglu, reflects on the turbulent ...

Project Syndicate: Last July, you wrote that economists and investors were right to be apprehensive about deficit spending, public debt, and the risk of sustained price growth, but “it would be a ...