Daron Acemoğlu
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 2 Sep 1967
- Works
- 285
Top works
- Putere și progres
- Prospérité, puissance et pauvreté (French Edition)
- Narrow Corridor
- Why Nations Fail
- PS Quarterly
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5
- Total plays
- 6
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation
· 2001 · cited 7,343x
- Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets
· 2020 · cited 2,907x
- The Environment and Directed Technical Change
· 2012 · cited 2,853x
- Taking Cell-Matrix Adhesions to the Third Dimension
· 2001 · cited 2,556x
- Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings
· 2011 · cited 2,429x
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Key facts
- Born
- Kamer Daron Acemoğlu , ( 1967-09-03 ) September 3, 1967 (age 58) , Istanbul , Turkey
- Citizenship
- Turkey, United States
- Spouse
- Asu Ozdaglar
- 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
- Discipline
- Political economy , Economic growth , Development economics , Labour economics
- School or tradition
- New institutional economics
- Institutions
- London School of Economics (1989–1993) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1993–present)
- Doctoral students
- Robert Shimer Mark Aguiar Pol Antràs Gabriel Carroll Melissa Dell Benjamin Jones Ufuk Akcigit
Key dates
- Born
- 3 September 1967
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Istanbul
- Spouse
- Asuman Özdağlar
- Occupation
- author
- Languages spoken
- Armenian
- Native language
- Turkish
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
Article
Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (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. His primary research fields include political economy, development economics, and labor economics. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 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.
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