In US, creative professionals are striking against generative AI. In Europe, workers are pushing back against algorithmic ...

Carnegie Corp. of New York's 2025 class of Great Immigrants, Great Americans include composer and conductor Tania León, last ...

Economics Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu has called for working-class liberalism. In his talk at the London School of Economics on Wednesday, as part of LSE Festival: Visions for the Future, professor ...

Despite some predictions that AI will double US GDP growth, Acemoglu expects it to increase GDP by 1.1% to 1.6% over the next 10 years, with a roughly 0.05% annual gain in productivity.

Daron Acemoglu: Well, DeepSeek itself, like most of the Silicon Valley companies, is aiming to produce a GI, and thinks that it is feasible. And if it does then I’ll probably have to rewrite my ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson join the ranks of Nobel Laureates as the winners of the 2024 prize. What makes one nation prosper while another struggles? It’s a question that has ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, who’s been dubbed one of the “World’s Top Thinkers” by the popular press, will receive to the 2025 Sage-CASBS Award, the Center for Advanced ...

Multiply those factors, and the total productivity gain is a paltry 0.66%, which Acemoglu says is a generous estimate, based on the idea that AI will become better at performing some hard-to-learn ...

Acemoglu, Robinson and Johnson’s theory tries the impossible: to find the one silver bullet factor that explains why nations become prosperous or not. But it doesn’t hold up under scrutiny.

Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson challenge the “geography hypothesis,” which attributes economic success to fixed natural factors such as climate, resources, or location.

Economist Daron Acemoglu, 2024 Nobel Prize winner in economics, speaks to the media during a conference in Athens on Oct. 14. (Petros Giannakouris/AP) The United States is immensely prosperous ...