Daron Acemoglu (MIT)

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Acemoglu is a Nobel laureate economist frequently cited in AI governance and safety discussions for his critical analysis of how AI may concentrate power and exacerbate inequality rather than broadly benefit society.

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Faculty profile of Daron Acemoglu, MIT Institute Professor whose research spans political economy, labor economics, and technology's societal impacts. His work on institutions, inequality, and technological change—including the book 'Power and Progress'—is highly relevant to AI governance debates about automation, labor displacement, and who controls transformative technologies.

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•Acemoglu researches how technology interacts with power, inequality, and economic development, directly informing AI governance discussions
•Co-authored 'Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity', a key text on technology's societal impact
•Works on directed technical change and wage inequality, relevant to AI-driven labor market disruption
•Co-Director of the Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work, focused on technology's effects on workers
•Prominent public intellectual offering skeptical perspectives on AI's economic benefits and risks of concentrated technological power

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 Daron
 Acemoglu

 
 Institute Professor

 
 
 
 
 Research Fields

 Macroeconomics, Political Economy, Labor Economics, Development Economics, Economic Theory
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 Publications 
 Working Papers 
 Selected Presentations 
 Courses 
 Awards and Honors 
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 Office Phone 
 617-253-1927
 
 
 
 Email Address 
 daron@mit.edu
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 E52-446 
 
 
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 Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity 

 The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies and the Fate of Liberty 

 
 
 
 
 
 
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 The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty 

 
 Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
 
 
 
 September 2019
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 Why Nations Fail: Origins of Power, Poverty and Prosperity 

 
 Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
 
 
 
 March 2012
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Why Do New Technologies Complement Skills? Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality 

 
 

 The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 113, pp. 1055-1089
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 The Structure of Wages and Investment in General Training 

 
 

 Jounal of Political Economy, 107, pp. 539-572
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequlaity and Growth in Historical Perpective 

 
 

 The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115, pp. 1167-1199
 
 

 
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 Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor at MIT, Faculty Co-Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work, and a Research Affiliate at MIT's newly established Blueprint Labs. He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, the British Academy of Sciences, the Turkish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists. He is also a member of the Group of Thirty. He is the author of six books, including New York Times bestseller Why Nations Fail: Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (joint with James A. Robinson), Introduction to Modern Economic Growth , The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (with James A. Robinson), and Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (with Simon Johnson). His academic work covers a wide range of areas, including political economy, economic development, economic growth, technological change, inequality, labor economics and economics of 

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