Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu is a professor of applied economics at MIT and a fellow of the Econometric Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of Labor Economists. In 2019, he was named Institute Professor, MIT’s most distinguished faculty honor. He has a wide academic focus, specializing in political economy, labor economics, and economic development, amongst other disciplines.
Acemoglu has received numerous honors, awards, and distinctions for his academic work, including the Carnegie Fellowship, the Kiel Institute’s 2019 Global Economy Prize, the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize, the John Bates Clark Medal, the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize, and the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award. He has been named to Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers twice.
He has authored five books: Why Nations Fail, The Narrow Corridor, Epilogue from Introduction to Modern Economic Growth, Introduction to Modern Economic Growth, and Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Acemoglu has also written for Esquire and Foreign Policy and contributed to academic publications such as The Journal of Economic Growth, The Economic Journal, the American Economic Review, and the Journal of Political Economy, amongst others.