Daron Acemoglu

Turkish-American economist

Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish American economist. He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993.[1]

Daron Acemoglu
Acemoglu in 2016
Born
Kamer Daron Acemoğlu

(1967-09-03) September 3, 1967 (age 57)
Istanbul, Turkey
CitizenshipTurkey and United States
SpouseAsu Ozdaglar
Institution
FieldPolitical economy
Economic growth
Development economics
Labour economics
School or
tradition
New institutional economics
Doctoral
advisor
Kevin W. S. Roberts
Doctoral
students
Robert ShimerMark AguiarPol AntràsGabriel CarrollMelissa DellBenjamin JonesUfuk Akcigit
InfluencesJoel MokyrKenneth SokoloffDouglass NorthSeymour Martin LipsetBarrington Moore
Awards
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Acemoğlu received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, and the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024 with James A. Robinson and Simon Johnson.[2]

References

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  1. "Daron Acemoğlu CV August 2022" (PDF). economics.mit.edu.
  2. "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-10-14.

Other works

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