AI and Social Media: A Political Economy Perspective by Daron Acemoglu, Asuman Ozdaglar, and James Siderius published by NBER (6/2025). We consider the political consequences of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by online platforms engaged in social media…
Daron Acemoglu: Nobel Prize in Economics, AI, Liberal Democracy, Turkey, Armenia (2025) In this episode of the New Colossus Project, Raafet Azzouz sits down with the Daron Acemoglu, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics and MIT professor whose groundbreaking…
Institutions, Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu published by MIT (1/ 2025). This paper reviews the main motivations and arguments of my work on comparative development, colonialism and institutional change, which was often carried out jointly with James Robinson…
Are High-Skill Immigrants a Problem? By Daron Acemoglu published by Project Syndicate (1/2025). Fissures within US President-elect Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” coalition have appeared sooner than expected. By the end of December, the tech-billionaire wing was in…
Smart Discussion – Daron Acemoglu published by Media XXI (2023) Economista Daron Acemoglu, um dos laureados com Prêmio Nobel de Economia em 20024, participou há cerca de um ano de um debate com intelectuais portugueses, a respeito do seu…
AI & Inequality – Daron Acemoglu: Big Tech poses risks as AI reshapes Society published by Harvard Business School (7/2024). MIT professor Daron Acemoglu, co-author of the bestselling book Why Nations Fail and the recently released Power and Progress,…
The Big Picture published by Project Syndicate (10/2024) This year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson for improving our understanding of the relationship between institutions and prosperity. These scholars’ theoretical tools for…
Tasks At Work: Comparative Advantage, Technology and Labor Demand by Daron Acemoglu, Fredric Kong, Pascual Restrepo published by NBER (8/2024). This chapter reviews recent advances in the task model and shows how this framework can be put to work…
(Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support, by Daron Acemoglu, Nicolás Ajzenman, Martin Fiszbein, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Carlos Molina published by NBER (10/2023). Using large-scale survey data covering more than 110 countries and exploiting within country variation across cohorts and…
Reequilibrar la inteligencia artificial por Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson publicado por FMI (12/2023) “El afán por automatizar es peligroso: para respaldar una prosperidad compartida, la inteligencia artificial debe complementar a los trabajadores, no reemplazarlos Abundan los pronósticos optimistas sobre…
