Acemoglu went to the U.K. for university, and entered the doctoral program at the London School of Economics. It was there that he first met Robinson, at a seminar in 1992.

Acemoglu and Robinson wrote the 2012 bestseller “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty,’’ which argued that manmade problems were responsible for keeping countries ...

STOCKHOLM — The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research that explains why societies with poor rule of law and ...

Acemoglu still worries that AI could widen income disparities. Toner-Rodgers’s paper suggests one way that might happen. He found that researchers who were already the most successful at ...

Just 5% of jobs will be replaced or heavily assisted by artificial intelligence within the next decade, according to calculations by Daron Acemoglu, an economist and professor at MIT.

Acemoglu and Johnson work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while Robinson is at the University of Chicago. ‘Reversal of fortune’ The laureates' research showed how European ...

Acemoglu and Johnson work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while Robinson is at the University of Chicago, where he spoke at a press conference on Monday and referred to his co ...

How Daron Acemoglu, one of the world's most respected experts on the economic effects of technology, learned to start worrying and fear AI.

Acemoglu seems to be reacting more to all the media and industry hype around generative AI — and, he's like, we're not witnessing an economic revolution by any means.

Acemoglu and Robinson wrote the 2012 bestseller, “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty," which argued that manmade problems were responsible for keeping countries poor.

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.

Daron Acemoglu, a winner of the 2024 Nobel in economic science, gave me some answers.“There is a lot of hype in the industry,” he told me in a telephone conversation. Yes, he said, A.I ...