36 Facts About Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, and the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024.

Daron Acemoglu is regarded as a centrist with a focus on institutions, poverty and econometrics.

Kamer Daron Acemoglu was born in Istanbul to Armenian parents on September 3,1967.

Daron Acemoglu's father, Kevork Acemoglu, was a commercial lawyer and lecturer at Istanbul University.

Daron Acemoglu became interested in politics and economics as a teenager.

Daron Acemoglu was educated at the University of York, where he received a BA in economics in 1989, and at the London School of Economics, where he received an MSc in econometrics and mathematical economics in 1990, and a PhD in economics in 1992.

Daron Acemoglu is fluent in English and Turkish, and speaks some Armenian.

Daron Acemoglu is married to Asuman "Asu" Ozdaglar, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, who is the daughter of Ismail Ozdaglar, a former Turkish government minister.

Daron Acemoglu was a lecturer in economics at the London School of Economics from 1992 to 1993.

Daron Acemoglu was appointed an assistant professor at MIT in 1993, where he became the Pentti Kouri Associate Professor of Economics in 1997, and was tenured in 1998.

Daron Acemoglu became a full professor at MIT in 2000, and served as the Charles P Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics there from 2004 to 2010.

In 2010, Daron Acemoglu was appointed the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT.

Daron Acemoglu is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2005.

Daron Acemoglu was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006, and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.

Daron Acemoglu is a Senior Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a member of several other learned societies.

Daron Acemoglu edited Econometrica, an academic journal published by the Econometric Society, from 2011 to 2015.

Daron Acemoglu noted in 2011 that most his research of the past 15 years concerned with what can be broadly called political economy.

Daron Acemoglu has made contribution to the labor economics field.

Daron Acemoglu's influences include Joel Mokyr, Kenneth Sokoloff, Douglass North, Seymour Martin Lipset, and Barrington Moore.

Daron Acemoglu argued against the US adopting the Nordic model in a 2015 op-ed for The New York Times.

Daron Acemoglu has praised the successes of the Progressive Era, and argued in favor of its replication.

Daron Acemoglu suggests that free markets are not unregulated markets.

In September 2008, Daron Acemoglu signed a petition condemning the Bush administration's bailout plan for the US financial system.

Daron Acemoglu has voiced concerns regarding the increasing inequality in the US, which in his view turns into political inequality, in turn undermining the inclusiveness of US institutions.

Daron Acemoglu has praised the American tradition of vibrant protest movements dating back to the Populists and the Progressives.

Daron Acemoglu is in favor of raising and indexing the minimum wage.

Daron Acemoglu believes that nation-building by the West is no longer possible around the world because the West now lacks the resources and commitment that were present in post-World War II Germany and Japan, and because countries where progress is needed today, such as in the Muslim- and Arab-majority world, do not trust the West.

Daron Acemoglu argues that socialist states have not been successful in creating prosperity.

Daron Acemoglu suggests that the Republican period has been characterized by an unwillingness to accept ethnic minorities.

In 2014, Daron Acemoglu condemned the widespread anti-Armenian rhetoric in Turkish textbooks, and demanded that the books be pulled from circulation.

Daron Acemoglu has criticized Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government for its authoritarian rule.

In March 2011, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu offered to appoint Daron Acemoglu Turkey's permanent representative to the OECD in Paris, a post he turned down in order to continue his academic career.

Pashinyan and Daron Acemoglu talked via the internet in June 2018.

Daron Acemoglu met with Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan in Boston in July 2019.

Daron Acemoglu has been awarded honorary degrees from the following universities: Utrecht University, Bogazici University, the University of Athens, Bilkent University, University of Bath, ENS Paris-Saclay, London Business School, and the University of Glasgow.

Daron Acemoglu became the second ethnic Armenian and third Turkish national to become a Nobel laureate.