Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu

Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu, a 2024 Nobel laureate in economics and Institute Professor of Economics at MIT, is a co-author (with Simon Johnson) of Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (PublicAffairs, 2023).

The killings of two innocent civilians – both US citizens – by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis this month may mark a turning point for the US.

26 January, 2026

The BRICS group's planned enlargement is a missed opportunity. The world does not need more countries to fall under Chinese & Russian influence, or to align against the US, it needs a genuinely independent third grouping, argues Daron Acemoglu.

04 September, 2023

Opinion: Twenty years of US efforts to impose top-down state-building efforts - despite a society's wishes - were always destined to end in failure, writes Daron Acemoglu.

25 August, 2021