Daron Acemoğlu

Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist, born in Istanbul on 3 September 1967. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he studies how political and economic institutions shape the prosperity of nations. With the political scientist James A. Robinson he wrote Why Nations Fail and The Narrow Corridor, the two books that carried that research beyond the academy. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005 and, in 2024, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, shared with Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson, for work on how institutions are formed and how they affect prosperity.