The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024
Awarded on: 2024-10-14
"for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity"
Affiliations:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Cambridge, MA, USA
Daron Acemoglu
Born: 1967-09-03 in Istanbul, Turkey
Gender: male
Field: Turkish-American economist (born 1967)
Biography
Kamer Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian descent who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, and was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, and the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024.