Economist Daron Acemoglu wants liberal democracy to connect with working people’s material interests and political power. His ...

Give an economist a few drinks, however, and some of them will venture their true opinions about this giant. “Much of his theoretical work is useful, but he uses his models to inform populist policies ...

Yann LeCun recommended listening to economists like Daron Acemoglu over Dario Amodei when it comes to AI's job impact — so we ...

Research co-authored by Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu finds labour shortages can spur, rather than slow down, productivity ...

Daron Acemoglu has a number for everything. The MIT economist — who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2024 for his work on institutions and prosperity — estimates that roughly 0.55% ...

Born to Armenian parents in a middle-class family in Turkey in the late 1960s, Daron Acemoglu grew up during a tense period of political unrest and economic crises, and he would speculate why Turkey’s ...

We ran an article recently critically assessing the work of Daron Acemoglu. We also published a review of his latest book. Professor Acemoglu responds below. The article and book review appeared ...

Three economists were awarded the Nobel Prize Monday for their research into how the nature of institutions helps explain why some countries become rich and others remain poor. Daron Acemoglu, Simon ...

Lunch doesn’t usually happen at 11 a.m., but Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) economics professor Daron Acemoglu is an efficient man. We are meeting early and close to his office in ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Lunch doesn’t usually happen at 11am, but MIT economics professor Daron Acemoglu is an efficient man. We are meeting ...