Workers and companies turn to technology to augment a reduced labour force, raising the productivity of each worker. Read ...

Three economists were awarded the Nobel Prize Monday for their research into how the nature of institutions helps explain why some countries become rich and others remain poor. Daron Acemoglu, Simon ...

Daron Acemoglu is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a 2024 Nobel Laureate in economics. He has researched how successful nations rely on strong, reliable institutions. He ...

The MIT economist and Nobel Prize winner doesn't mince words: most of what you're reading about AI is wrong, and the stakes for getting it right are existential.

(Bloomberg) -- Daron Acemoglu wants to make clear right away that he has nothing against artificial intelligence. He gets the potential. "I'm not an AI pessimist," he declares seconds into an ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Lunch doesn’t usually happen at 11am, but MIT economics professor Daron Acemoglu is an efficient man. We are meeting ...

Lunch doesn’t usually happen at 11 a.m., but Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) economics professor Daron Acemoglu is an efficient man. We are meeting early and close to his office in ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian-American economist and Nobel Prize laureate Daron Acemoglu declined to comment on Prime Minister ...

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity, by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (PublicAffairs, 560 pp., $32) Is progress good? Despite the subjective nature of the ...

Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson have written a long, eloquent book arguing that technological progress is a decidedly mixed bag. They believe that the power of the state can and should be used to ...