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Kamer Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian descent who has been at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics. He was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019. His primary research fields include political economy, development economics, and labor economics. He received the John Bates C…
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Born 3 September 1967 · Q718581
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tradition of strong labor movement or social democratic party, by constraining the actions of the social planner, can act as a commitment device to egalitarianism, inducing an equilibrium in which the country in question becomes the beneficiary from the asymmetric world equilibrium.
terrible state of Greek institutions, and the clientelistic nature of its politics
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“tradition of strong labor movement or social democratic party, by constraining the actions of the social planner, can act as a commitment device to egalitarianism, inducing an equilibrium in which the country in question becomes the beneficiary from the asymmetric world equilibrium.”
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“terrible state of Greek institutions, and the clientelistic nature of its politics”
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“Surely, Trump and the Republicans are no Nazis. But they are exploiting the same political sentiment.”
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“When channeled into profit-maximizing, competitive, and innovative behavior under the auspices of sound laws and regulations, greed can act as the engine of innovation and economic growth. But when unchecked by the appropriate institutions and regulations, it will degenerate into rent-seeking, corruption, and crime.”
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t.co: Daron Acemoglu on whether the UK is "ungovernable" and where Britain has "gone wrong"
Public attention spiked: 2,683 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.8× the usual 393, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Daron Acemoglu on whether the UK is "ungovernable" and where Britain has "gone wrong"” (t.co).
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The Economist: Daron Acemoglu responds to our criticism of his work
Dünya Gazetesi: Daron Acemoğlu'ndan The Economist'e sert yanıt: İkna edicilikten uzak olan sizin eleştiriniz
Hürriyet Daily News: Nobel laureate Acemoğlu calls The Economist critique ‘hit piece’
Haberler.com: Daron Acemoğlu kimdir, kitapları neler? Daron Acemoğlu kaç yaşında, nereli?
Türkiye Today: Nobel laurate Acemoglu blasts The Economist over ‘hit piece’ article
Memurlar.Net: The Economist'ten Daron Acemoğlu'na sert eleştiri
Sözcü Gazetesi: Daron Acemoğlu’ndan The Economist’teki makaleye sert tepki: Karalama yazısı gibi
BirGün: The Economist “inandırıcı değil” dedi, Daron Acemoğlu yanıt verdi
Dünya Gazetesi: The Economist ile Nobel ödüllü Daron Acemoğlu arasında polemik
Haber3: The Economist'ten Nobel Ödüllü Daron Acemoğlu için skandal ifadeler!
Public attention spiked: 3,438 Wikipedia readers in one day, 8.7× the usual 393, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Daron Acemoğlu kimdir, kitapları neler? Daron Acemoğlu kaç yaşında, nereli?” (Haberler.com).
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The Guardian: What Happened to Liberal Democracy? by Daron Acemoglu review – how to fix the system
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WBUR: Economist Daron Acemoglu on why strong, trusted institutions bring economic and political stability
NBC New York: Nobel economics prize for 2024 awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson
Awarded Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2024).
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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity is a book by Acemoglu and Simon Johnson on the historical development of technology and the social and political consequences of technology
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Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2022).
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“Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality”
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Awarded Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (2021).
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“Robots and Jobs: Evidence from U.S. Labor Markets”
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Acemoglu publicly emphasized the importance of institutional reforms for Armenia’s long-term economic development during interviews related to the country’s post-revolution economic strategy
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Awarded Global Economy Prize (2019).
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“[Social democracy, when practiced by competent governments] is a phenomenal success. Everywhere in the west is to some degree social democratic, but the extent of this varies. We owe our prosperity and freedom to social democracy.”
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Acemoglu argued in favor of social democracy
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Awarded Carnegie Fellow presented by Carnegie Corporation of New York (2017).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (2017).
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“Armenia could have looked much more like the Czech Republic or Estonia and what we got instead is a country that looks much more like Azerbaijan or Uzbekistan, which is a real shame.”
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Awarded BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2016).
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Was named the most cited economist of the past 10 years per Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) data
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“almost predictable, stage of Turkey”
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Acemoglu condemned the widespread anti-Armenian rhetoric in Turkish textbooks, and demanded that the books be pulled from circulation
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Made $841,380, making him one of the top earners at MIT
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Awarded Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards (2013).
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“Even before the brutal suppression of the demonstrations, the belief that Turkey was on its way to becoming a mature democracy — a role model for the rest of the Middle East — had already become untenable.”
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Awarded Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics (2012).
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Identified societal polarization, caused by economic inequality, as the biggest problem for the US
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That most his research of the past 15 years concerned with what can be broadly called political economy
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Acemoglu was appointed the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT
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Awarded Heinz I. Eulau Award (2007).
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Awarded John von Neumann Award (2007).
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Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Acemoglu and Robinson analyzes the creation and consolidation of democratic societies
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And to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014
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Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society (2005).
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Won John Bates Clark Medal (2005).
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And the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2024
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“shift the composition of employment toward high-wage jobs. Because the composition of jobs in the laissez-faire equilibrium is inefficiently biased toward low-wage jobs, these labor market regulations increase average labor productivity and may improve welfare.”
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That although deunionization in the US and UK since the 1980s is not the "underlying cause of the increase in inequality", it "amplifies the direct effect of skill-biased technical change by removing the wage compression
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Where he became the Pentti Kouri Associate Professor of Economics in 1997, and was tenured in 1998
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And at the London School of Economics (LSE), where he received an MSc in econometrics and mathematical economics in 1990, and a PhD in economics in 1992
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Born 1967-09-03.
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By Atatürk, "is very continuous with the Ottoman Empire
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When channeled into profit-maximizing, competitive, and innovative behavior under the auspices of sound laws and regulations, greed can act as the engine of innovation and economic growth. But when unchecked by the appropriate institutions and regulations, it will degenerate into rent-seeking, corruption, and crime.
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