Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu is a Turkish-born American economist who shared the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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Daron Acemoglu is a Turkish-born American economist and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He shared the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Simon Johnson and James Robinson for research on how institutions shape national prosperity. He is widely known for Why Nations Fail, written with James Robinson.

The effects of technological change and automation on labor markets and wages are also central to his work, and he has written about how AI may affect jobs and productivity.

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Jobs outlook: Nobel laureate economist Daron Acemoglu estimates that AI will replace only about 5% of human work over the next 10 years, in an article shared by…


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